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Win the original ar*twork for Time 
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COMBAT ZONE 16 

John Cook leads another mission into 
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MlclfrSiMn 22 

Trevor Cummings turns his curious 
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The return of everybodies favorite 
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John Kennedy slips into something 
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APPUGATmiS 
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Another mailbag of problems is solved 
by our resident ace David Dorn. 


Ten more games come under the 
scrutiny of the ACU reviewers. 


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Andrew Banner reviews the rebirth of 
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miners 

I have an Amstrad 664,2160 printeif and a 
Juki 6000 daisywheel printer; the latter T 
bought to get good letter quality print. 
Unfortunately I did not get a manual with 
the printer; as a result 1 am unable to utilise 
the printer capability fully without 
knowledge of the control codes used by the 
printer. 

If any readers have a copy of the printer 
manual they could lend^ell/copy for me - 
I would pay any expenses incurred - I 
would be grateful. 

I realise your magazine caters for the 
broad spectrum of Amstrad users, which I 
think it does rather well. As a dedicated 
hardware buff I have a few constructive 
comments. 

You do not publish many hardware 
projects; those you print seem to be of very 
simple design. Is this because you consider 
your readership incapable of complex 
circuit construction, both with available 
tools and experience: software-rientaled 
and therefore if they want to build print 
buffers, fax decoders and weather satellite 
receiveridecoders to add on to their CPCs 
they should look in electronics magazines. 

Is the answer even simpler? N<H>ne offers 
you projects like this to publish, if this is the 
case it might be useful if you suggest the 
types of project you would like people to 
provide. 

The hardware you review tends to be 
printers, disc drives and so on. I am not 
complaining, as 1 tend to read them 
regularly but projects like the NCAA 
Satellite decoders offered by both Maplin 
Electronics and Circuit Electronics I would 
like to read about the various PBC 
designers for the CPC, 

Andy Simmons, 

Seiston, 

Notts. 


ACU: Does anyone have a printer manual? 
So far as complex projects are concerned, 
if readers want to submit suggestions or 
projects we will try to accommodate the 
best. 



Mvice 


1 thought your readers would like to know 
of a problem I experienced with the game 
Blastewids. 

When a joystick splitter is used and the 
keys are defined with the joystick, you 
cannot enter the letter 'R’ or key 50 
because the game uses R as a Restart in the 
program . You have to play with the keys and 
a joystick unless anybody knows a way 
round it The people at Mirrorsoft were not 
aware of this problem. Any ideas? 

N. Jopling 
Doncast(;r 


ciuzen 120-D 


A few words about my rapturous affair with 
my marvellous Citizen 120-D printer. 1 paid 
£200 for it three years ago when it first came 
out and I still think it was terrific value even 
at that, although prices are lower now at 
£130 plus VAT.' 

A few points to add to your replies to I^ui 
Easter and R. Jackson in the June issue. 
Surely boxes can be made with the letter 1 
In caps in any W pro and then saved as a 


test file and written into when reloaded, or 
all the information printed then boxes 
drawn around by hand? We use orange 
crayons as we are not allowed sharp 
instruments. 

The 120-D makes the 7-bit CPC printer 
output into S-bit; it has an in-built thingy 
to do this so your end bits are not chopped 
off. 1 has quadruple-density print also a 
216th line feed and it supports NLQ in 
proportional and joined-up writing and 
double and too many well-explained 
niceties in the manual for me to mention. 
In short, a good bit of stuff for the 
wordsmith and art package user. 

The enormously high-quality ribbon can 
be re-inked ad mhnitvm and as yet seems 
to go on and on. I am still re-inking my 
original - at least Alladdink is. The 120 
also has a slide-out adjustable dip switch 
board, a paper aligner, a free tractor feed 
and the best manual 1 have seen for 
anything. 

I would not use an Amstrad printer in a 
fit as its ribbons do not last five minutes and 
1 use Tbsword 6138 and Printmaster (Siren 
Soft) to produce this kind of stuff. 
Microdesign by Siren Soft is good for words 
and pictures a la my logo. 

Phi] Moisey, 
Whittlesey 
Peterborough. 


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alien mechanisms, avofding the 
Ketars Peftwos i ikI gain acCtSS toi 
the maflry sections o) liie aamh. 

Miilrai. Experiertce-prillei-and Freestape 
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THE VINOICATDIl 

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“The graphics are great with 
fast tiowing backgrounds and 
sfTiQo^, speedy sprites, i now 
know what I would do if the 
five mimjte warning werrt off 
... I WDutd play S.D.T." F.A 6 - 
COMPUTER GAMES WtEK 


CAPTAIN BLOOD 

“To sum up - Bloody excellent 
“The graphics and sound are 
excellent... an intelligent 
strategy game." 

YOUR SINCLAIR 


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Errors 

1 was very pleased to see that my seven 
ID-Liners has won a place in the June issue 
under the heading The Pattern Collection 
but not so pleased for young readers and 
tyro-typists to find that each of the 10-liners 
was compounded by errors- 
J have every sympathy with letter-writer 
Bob Adams who writes: Why could you not 
print from the individual listings as you 
obviously did with Marion Clarke'sSo//tain? 
- the slashed 0 is a dead give-away. 

The snide statement 'Just between you 
and me, squire^ I can’t see why it’s called 
'‘T\vo into One’” - whoever wrote that fails 
to see that it is one program with ’f=f*-r 
(DRAGON CURVE) left in and another (C 
CURVE) with it REM’d out!! 

1 have not TYPED it out but 1 do believe 
* * ’CURTAINS* * * is correct and will work. 

Bili Wamlej! 
Ca/nsfroroutgh. 

ACU: Sorry 

Not Funny 

Well done with your April food conspiracy 
which triggered endless anguish letters. 
There is no denying that you deliberately 
made the April issue into the worst 
magazine I have ever seen. When things 
became normal again in the May issue 
people would think how wonderful it is. 

Derek Wong, 
Thornton Heath, 
Surrey. 


ACU: All’s well that ends well and stays 
well. Happy reading. 

weird Science 

For about two-and-a-half years we have had 
a 6128 and we have hours of pleasure as we 
have explored different ways of using this 
wonderful machine. A few months ago we 
connected a cassette player so that we could 
take advantage of the exciting range' of 
reasonably-priced software. The only 
disadvantage was that my dad kept 
complaining about the din when programs 
are loading, which meant that I could not 
always use tapes when I wanted to. 1 have 
just found a simple solution to the problem 
which may be helpful to other readers. 

I have plugged some stereo headphones 
into the cassette player which means that 
1 can locate programs at any time without 


having lo worry about the noise it creates. 
The headphones I have used are cheap - 
they were a give-away with a pack of cassette 
tapes we bought. They do not work very 
well as headphones but they do a fantastic 
job as a silencer for our equipment. 

Gareth Coot, 
Aylesbnry 
Bucks. 

Special effects 

1 was messing about on my computer one 
evening as always, and I keyed-in the listing 
below. It was supposed to be the beginning 
of a machine code monitor. When I ran it 
1 was amazed at the effect, I seem to have 
called £bbl9 instead of &bblS. Please do 
not look at it if you are epileptic or you do 
not want your eyes to go weird. 

10 FOR t«&27]0 TO &2720 
20 READ x$:POKE t,VAL(*'&”+x$) 

30 NEXT 
40 CALL &2710 

50 DATA 21,0,0,7e,cd.5a,bb.cd,19, 
bb,fe,20,c8,33,c3,13,27 

Willy Walfery, 
Hjjgft Wycombe, 
Bucks. 


ACU: A great discovery. 

Acnon Man 

I have just bought an Amstrad CPC6128 
and am thoroughly fed up with it, mainly 
because, since purchasing it, 1 have heard 
that Amstrad is one of the worst companies 
with which to deal. 

1 am physically disabled, so cannot go to 
computer clubs or classes. Nor can I afford 
to pay for postal classes and 1 had assumed 
Amstrad was a big enough company to help 
if 1 had any teething problems. Not so. I 
wrote a query enclosing three tapes about 
a month ago - no reply and no return of 
tapes. 

I decided to send a recorded delivery 
letter to the management. No reply 

So, the letter in the June magazine, 
Amstrad Shocker, was of interest and 1 felt 
t would write to ask of anyone has ever 
received a reply from Amstrad? While 1 still 
have the Amstrad could you ask if anyone 
could call to help me sort out games. 

The keyboard is faulty - but luckily 1 deal 
with Currys/Dixons and Currys has always 
given me good service, so it is sorting it out 
for me - getting me another one. In view 


of the Amstrad policy I am thinking of 
asking for it to be changed for another 
make. 

R. Conway 
South Ruislip, 
Middlesex. 

DIY Help 

1 would like to build the DIY second disc 
drive. 1 have the second part but I cannot 
find the first. 1 know it is in the April, 1987 
issue of Computing with the Amshad, Is 
any-body willing to part with it^ 

Co//fi Thytor, 
Enheld, 
Middlesex. 

lb the rescue 

T own a CPC 464. After typingnout the game 
Solitaire in the June issue. I cannot get it 
working. Is it possible to print a PROOF 
READER in your next magazine? 

S.G. Duffield 
Norwich 


ACU: Help is on the horizon. A proof 
reader will be provided with every type-in 
program in the next issue. 

Pascal intormalion 

Can any readers help me? 1 have the Oxford 
Pascal from Systems Software (Oxford) Ltd, 
168 Worcester Place, Oxford, 
Unfortunately this program, for obvious 
reasons, uses a protection against 
unauthorised use which consists of a colour 
control chart, without which it is impossible 
to use the program. Not having used it for 
a long time I find that I have lost the charL 
I have tried to get in touch with the 
company but to no avail, so I wonder if 
anyone can help me? If anyone can please 
telephone 0924 377836 after 7pm 
reversing the charges. 

Sam Samuels, 
Wakeheld. 

Preol al Iasi 

What happened to the proof reader prefix 
on all the type-in programs? Since the 
amalgamation of the two magazines, I have 
not found a type-in with the proof reader 
listed. Surely 1 am not the only reader of the 
magazine who has trouble in getting the 
programs to run. 

Ian Dempster, 
Binningham. 







Adventures 

1 used to read CPC Computing, and I like 
your magazine very much. Can we have 
Gandalfs adventure pages back? T am a 
great fan of adventures and even if you 
cannot do that, at least do a page of hints, 
tips and solutions. 

I do not think solutions would defeat the 
object of the game, because if you do not 
want to see the solution do not look. 

I was flicking llirough the really old pages 
of CPC Computing when I saw they used to 
have a feature called Give your fingers a 
rest, which meants that you could send for 
all the month's typedns and listings on tape 
or disc. Could we have these back again? 

Philip Calver, 
Coli^hester, Essex. 


ACIJ: Gandalf is on his wanderings at the 
moment but if sufficient interest is stiown 
we will send one of the dwarfs to drag him 
back. 


Accessories 

About two-and-a-half years ago I bought 
Arnold. As a very active photo-journalist 1 
needed his help to make light of a heavy 
workload. I equipped him with Rombo, 
Pretext, Promerge Plus and Prospell. 1 fed 
him a diet of articles, newsletters and press 
releases. He digested and regurgitated it via 
a DMP 2000 and did a fine Job, 

1 should explain that I am a hard 
taskmaster and like to see a beautifully 
printed page with good type, striking 
headlines, neat sub-heads and - if required 
- tidy graphics. To achieve this 1 bought a 
variety of superb software which included 
Stop Press. QuaUtBS Plus, Signwritcr and 
Masterfiie lil. My choices were spot on and 
each program lived up to my expectations. 
Kewslettens took a little lime to produce hut 
1 think they were a joy to view and read. 
Anyway, T was proud of them but the trouble 
with people like me is that we are never 
satisfied and are always trying to find a way 
of improving things. 

After much thought 1 decided that 
Arnold deser^'ed a treat. I sold the ugly but 
dependable DMP 2000 and bought a Star 
LC24-10 printer. I could scarcely wait to set 
it working. Well, I would be getting a much 
faster printout and, as for the quality, X320 
seemed like a bargain. 

First impressions were very favourable. 
My letters looked terrific and I played with 
the fonts and decorative options until I was 


able to drive that lovely little Star until it 
twinkled. Then the problems started. The 
first disappointment was the Qualitas does 
not support 24-pin printers and therefore 
I could not use my favourite fonts, Clarion 
and Yorkbold. Exit Qualitas. The next 
problem was the wonderful Signwriter 
program and equally good Stop Press, 
produced distorted screen dumps. 
Everything was elongated vertically and the 
pirintouts were very faint. 

I can solve this problem partially on Stop 
Press by stretching the image by a factor of 
1 to 1.25 but to get a reasonable density 1 
must print using the NTQ option, which is 
about as fast as Eddie Edwards’ take-off 
speed Signwriter allows you to select an 
aspect ratio prior to printing but I cannot 
achieve acceptable print density. So C-xit 
Signwriter 

I tackled Star Micronics as well as the 
software producers and, as I understand 
from their explanations, an over¬ 
simplification is that 24'pin printers use 
only nine pins when in the graphics mode. 
Add to this the fact that a 24-pin printhead 
is taller than a 9-pin and you can see there 
is no solution as far as existing software is 
concerned. In time, of course, programs will 
be written to take into account the 
peculiarities of this new technology. Where 
does that leave me and does anyone really 
care? 

It leaves me holding the baby, f now own 
a superb i320, 24-pin printer which has 
made £100 of software virtually useless. 
Nobody warned me about this when I 
bought it. I did not think to ask - why 
should I? After all, the advertisements said 
“fully Epson-compatible." Was this 
misrepresentation and is it in the spirit of 
the Fair IVading Act? Was ACU and the 
other Amstrad magazine aware of this 
problem? If so, why did they not warn 
us? 

I would like your 
comments. Perhaps 
your experts can offer a 
simple solution. If not, 
it would be gratifying to 
think this letter might 
prompt other Arnold 
Users to 
think 
carefully 
before 


Thking a second mortgage on one of these 
technological marvels. In the meantime, I 
will manage. 

Vic Barnes 
London. 

Grallfled 

It was gratifying for me to see that my article 
Type It Yourself was found to be interesting 
- Letters ACU July. It is satisfy ing to have 
my question answered. It would please me 
to be able to thank the person who gave 
that answer. 

Users of the Type-lt-Yourself variables 
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default integer.11 0 0 

type-marked string {$}... 3 0 0 

default string.12 0 0 

type-marked real (!) .,,400 
default real... ... 13 0 0 
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there has been a previous DEFINT, 
DEFSTR or DEFREAL command. No 
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gamebooks. Entitled Lone Wo!f - 
The Mirror of Death, the game 
plunges you into the world created 
by Joe Dever in which you must use 
speed, skill and bravery to find the 
Lorestone, a gem of power which 
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There will be many encounters 
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All this makes for a highly action- 
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more games are likely to follow and, 
before you know it, there will be as 
many games as books. Prices will be 


E14.95 far disc and £9.95 for the 
cassette version. 

Another product designed round 
the Lone V\fo]f theme is a new 
telephone game similar to the 
incredibly popular FfSt. The Portress 
Of Doom can be played by 
telephoning 0898 300 341, where 
you will be greeted by mood music 
before setting out on a quest played 
in neal-time 

The PhoneQuest telephone game 
system, which it uses, makes use of 
the latest voice-interactive 
technoiogy. You have only to speak 
into the telephone and decisions and 
battles come your way. One 
warning, though, for those who 
may be easily hooked ” the calls are 
charged at 38 pence per minute 
peak rate and 25 pence off-peak 
inclusive of VAT. 

Also worthy Of note are the two 
books to be released at the same 
time. Joe Dever's Legend Of Lone 
Wolf is a new series co-written by 
Joe Dever, of course, and John Grant 
who, within the pages, chronicle the 
history and adventures of the Lone 
Wolf. 

Eclipse Of The Kai is the first of 
the books and tells of the 
destruction of the Kai warriors, an 
event leading to Lone WoJf's 
creation. The Dark Door Opens, 
book 2, follows Lone Vtolf in his 
quest to warn King Ulner of the 
impending doom. 

Both books will cost £2.50 in 
paper-back format and are available 
from most good bookshcps. They 
are published by Beaver, an imprint 
of Arrow Books, 


Rick 

Dangerous 

RICK DANGEROUS is a new game to 
come from Micnoprose, under the 
newly-acquired Firebird label. It is a 
vertically-scrolling climber game 
with more than a touch of humour. 
You control R/ck Dongeroos in a 
cartoon-like strategic game and 
must trarvel through four levels of 
comic fun which span the globe and 
offer varying tasks. The Amazon 
jungle, the Aztec temples, Egyptian 
tombs and dark fortresses of the 
west must all be negfotiated for Rick 
to raise his popularity to Indiana 
Jones-like heights. 

Rick Dangerous should be 
available how at 69.99 for cassette 
and £14,99 disc. 

Also from Rrebird is Onentaf 
Games, with four beat-’em-ups 
featured in one package available in 
August. Kung Fu. Hollywood Rules, 
Sumo Wrestling and Kendo are all 
featured in a gargantuan contest of 
muscular mayhem. 

\bu can participate in a six-round 
mini-tournament to find an exclusive 
'master' of that particular fighting 
style, or alternatively you can play 
against the computer or a friend in 
a practice bout. Once you are a 
master of ali four styles you can 
then, and only then, compete In the 
grand tournament to find a 'Grand 
Master' from 24 participants. 

Anotfier Firebird launch available in 
mid-August will be Act/on Fighter^ a 
conversion of the successful Sega 
coin-op. It is a topgh, vertically- 
scrolling shoot-'em-up set in the 
midst of heavy battle and is divided 
into four sections, each featuring a 
different kind of landscape. 

You will start on a motorcycle 
which you must steer through the 
first level but it is not such an easy 
task as it sounds. Passing enemy 
vehicles and an enemy helicopter 
flying overhead all aim to thwart 
your progress but luckily you can 
avoid them and dea! them their own 
kSrvd of medicine, with weapons 
provided by the passing Sega van. 
Also by collecting floattng letters yOu 
can transmute Into more pjowerful 
methods of transport, thus allowing 
your task to become a little easier. 


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The Movie is a film which could 
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The film, directed by Tim Burton 
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NighWreed, however, is a far more 


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The trio is offered at a more 
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wholesome cookie as it is the latest 
filrn from Clive 'Hellraiser" Barker, 
Based on his book Caba/, it leads the 
viewer through a tale of heroism and 
romance but not without Barker's 
brand of perverse horror twists. 
The monsters are still awesome, the 
special effects are still explicit, but 
perhaps the plot is a little more 
palatable than his directional debut. 
Again the Ocean game captures the 
subterranean world in which 
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disc organisation. Greyhound 
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could help immensely Discbase CPC 
is a disc-file database which offers 
many features, including easy 


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the database, and three 
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discs, and page-at-a-time CATs read 
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HISTORY is in the making with the 
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Fbstman Fbt should now be available 
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Playing the prestigious delivery 
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letters in your home town of 
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destinations. Not only do you have 
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Although the game is simple it is 
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"Stjmmertime. - . . and the 
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are fought back from world 
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then certainly at the end of the pier. 
To look at the latest batch of games 
you might think that aliens had 
become an endangered species. We 
have wrestling games, shooting 
games, mind games, cutsie games; 
what about the straightforward 
alien bash? 

Fear not: it is well-known that 
most non-terrestriai species travel 
back to visit their mothers in the 
summer months so they will be 
back in force soon and, besides, 
there are still one or two exceltent 
new releases to satisfy the true 
xenophobe. 

My favourite must be Heitfire. Just 
when you thought there was no 
way anyone could possibly produce 
another Wemesis clone - after 
Vulcan Vbnture, what else could 
they do? - someone does. Yes, 
Hellfire certainly has been,'shall we 
say, artistically inspired by Nemesis 
and others which followed but has 
that little twist of lateral thinking 
which can often take, an ordinary 
idea and change rt into something 
worthwhile. 

For Hellfire, that twist Is the 
direction of fire of your ^aceship. 
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press of a button the fine Is changed 
to backwards, upwards/downwards 
C 0 - firing on all four diagonals. It might 
not sound much but the gamepiay 
has been finely-tuned so that 


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changing between directions of fire 
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The gameplay is familiar if you 
have ever played games of this type; 
there are speed and weapcmry 
power-ups and a constant right to 
left scroll but is very well-balanced in 
speed and variety of aliens. 
Definitely a PCB to look for tn the 
next few months. 

Regular readers wilt know I am 
keen about pinball. One thing about 
pins is that the makers of the things, 
the brand if you like, tend to have 
different feels to them. Stern tables 
of the early 19803 are my favourites 
but that is because 1 like plenty of 
targets at which to atm. Obviously 
not many other people did because 
Stem went out of business in the 
mid-1980s. 



Another famous name in the 
pinbali trade is Bally and one of its 
tables. Truck Stop, had me occupied 
for a few hours in the depths of a 
London arcade a few weeks ago. 
The theme of this is, as usual, heavily 
macho. Ntju are supposed to be 
driving your big rig round the 
freeways of the U.S.A. and have to 
make sets of rollovers by making 
various ramp shots to 'visit' each 
city - Chicago, Denver, Dallas, New 
York, Los Angeles. Get all of them 
and the city lights Jit and the 


machine almost explodes. 

With two sets of flippers on the 
ptayfield the upper set is placed to 
make a second set of ramps. Truck 
Stop is a fun table - not too difficult, 
rvot too complicabed and one you can 
get into reasonably quickiy. If you 
happen to pass one on your travels, 
I recommend you try it. 

Do you remember I mentioned the 
Sega System 24 last month and the 
latest reiease for it. Crack Down? 
This month we bring you System 24j 
the circuit board. 


I finally managed to obtain a 
reasonably full technical ^ecifica- 
tion of the system, and, as you can 
imagine, it has a little more than 64K 
and a single Z-80. It has two CPUs, 
both full 16-bit variants of the 68000 
family, the 60010. On top of that 
there is 1360K of RAM available and 
a 256K ROM full Of hardware 
routines available to the 
programnrter. 



There is hardware pixel scrolling, 
of course, and hardware windowing, 
^rite handling - how about 2,048 
16 by 16 pixel sprites? How about 
4325 colours dispiayaUe on-screen 
at once out of a palette of 32,768? 
The FM, eight-channel sound 
system scarcely needs mentioning, 
does it? 

Although Crack Down is the best 
game on the system to date, Ga/n 
Ground was not bad but this looks 
tike a system with a hardware 
specification which will stand up for 
two years at least and, as 
programmers get used to it. the 
games can only get better and 
better. 

Capcom launched a new generic 
board about nine months ago in a 
blaze of publicity. Estimates of 
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like Forgotten WorMs, now s 
conversion from the ULS, Gold stable, 
and Ghouls and Goblins, a strangely 
unsuccessful follow-up to the 
original Ghosts and Got)//ns. 

Now another game from it is 
Dynasty Wars. We are talkijng 
Chinese Dynasties here, the ones 
which do not just seem to last 
hundreds of years - they really do. 

At the beginning of his bash you 
choose one of four characteristics- 
They are presented with the usual 
hilarious Japanese/English transla¬ 
tions. Kuan Yu, for instance, is "Not 
only a great warrior who has 
defeated many famous, but also 
educated and weH-mannered." Once 
you get into the game you have an 
interesting right/teft, semi- 
perspective view of a battlefteld 
through which you have to cream 
your way on horseback. 

There are plenty of sprites, plenty 
of well-designed cannon fodder. >fbu 
have magical ability as well which 
can summon fire, landslides and 
stuff, it is all done very well and 
competentiy but, even though it is a 
technically-impressive piece of work, 
somehow it failed to inspire so much 
as I hoped. It is certainly not a dud 
but treat this one warily. 

Back to the vids. Tetris, the home 
computer game, made it to Tetris 
the arcade coin-op did it not? It is the 
number one coin-op in the home of 
coin-ops, Japan. I suspected that, if 
successful. Tetris might spawn a 
new craze in vids, the puzzle game. 
Well, the first of them appears to 
have arrived. 


TURifl ouihun: Ffliier man naf. 

**Never let it be 

saicl we do not tell 

you about the bad 

as well as the 

good. Here is one 

to really avoid- 

Buccaneers” 


I do not know what it is called - 
the title screen is in characters 
rather than English - but it appears 
to be a version of that mega-hrt from 
Activision. Shanghai. 

It is a kind of patience, I guess. The 
game is played on a single screen full 
of Ma Yong titles and like the old 
card game Pairs, you have to 
designate pairs of titles and they are 
then removed from the screen. It is 
not particularly simple, though - 
the titles are aligned in rows and you 
can nominate titles only at the end 
of a row and you are doing it against 
a time limit, it will be interesting to 
see if it catches on. 

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TaiB that, iiinr. 

each other about the pJace - and it 
is big-time, prime-time TV to boot. 
This must explain the rash of 
wrestling games which has arrived 
on our shores. 

Wr&stUng Superstars from 
Tech nos. Champion VVhest/er from 
Taito, but ! like best Wrestle War 
from Sega, it is a complicated game, 
as you can see from the controls; it 
has huge sprites but, more 
important, manages to capture the 
pure theatre and silliness of it all, 
while being a fun, piayaNe game, it 
is rot my cup of tea but combart fans 
will go for it. 

Next time, an in-depth review of 
what is already being called the 
hottest PCB around, Gotofien Axe 
from Sega. 


Crazv stim. 

from the holes pop gormless-lOOkihg 
moles and you had to bob them on 
the head before they ducked. At the 
start of the game they appeared 
only in ones and twos but fives had 
you flailing around all over the place, 
it also is the first coin-operated 
amusement game 1 ever got my 
mother to pJay. 

Now there is another, very much 


in the same mould, except it is 
crocodiles which are creeping out of 
caves to bite you on the hand, These 
kinds of games really are fun and 
leave the particip>ant panting with 
effort and the audience - somehow 
there is always an audience - rolling 
on the floor with mirth. 

First there was the hit game 
Outrun. Now, perhaps, even three 
years after the event, there is the 


replay, Turbo Outrun, The graphics 
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sound is terrific. Additional features 
include a turbo button on the gear 
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AJsp wh^ completing a level, you 
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car. The gameplaying public wants 
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Power Drift. 


You might think that Pnofessfona/ 
WrestiinQ is silly in the UK. and you 
would be correct but in the States. 
heavi|y*musc[ed nutters strut round 
rings in equally heavily-sequined 
posing pouches. They shout at each 
other and then proceed to add to 
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Outrun, Now 


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MICRO-SCOPE 


Researcher about 
town Trevor 


Cummings, turns 




his attentions to 
printers and the 

CPC - from a 
technical point of 

view naturally. 


T his month we look technically 
at printers and the CPC. The 
printer port and interface are 
examined and the reason for the 
missing eighth bit are revealed. VWe 
examine the options available in 
terms of A ms trad, non-Amstrad, 
dot matrix and daisywheel printers, 
along with other useful hardware 
and see what to consider when 
looking at second‘hand machines, 
whether or not they will work on 




the CPC. 


We cannot examine individual 
printers, though, as there are so 
many different ones taut there is a 


general overview of the options. In 
addition, as promised last month, we 
have an 8-bit printer port project 
which all ni.Y. enthusiasts can build 
for less than £5. Bvjdding machine 
code programmers for the project 
should look at the software as it is 
an example of intercepting and re- 
routeing the CPC firmware routines. 

Inside the computer each 


character, such as the letter A, has 
an S-bit binary code - A = 
OlOOOOOt When it is moved, e-g,, 
from memory to memory, screen, 
tape, disc drive and the printer, the 
^ght wires of the computer data 
bus, DO to D7, have this code on 
them. A t = high voltage and a O = 
low voltage, With DO on the right and 
D7 on the left, the character A 
virt^uld have DO as a high voltage. D1 
as low, DE as low, and so on. There 
are two ways to send such data to 
a printer, one bit at a time - DO 
followed by D1. DE, and so on is serial 


transmission and printers empJoying 
the method cannot be used on the 
CPC without the addition of a serial 
interface. 

The other is the parallei method 
which sends all eight bits along eight 
wires simuitaneously. As well as the 
data lines other controi lines are 
either needed or are useful, The 
Centronics Interface is a full set of 
parallel data and control lines. Most 
machines with this interface apply 
at least some of the signals to the 
same connector pin numbers, giving 
a good degree of standardisation. 


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Since the CPC uses this system, 
any printer with a Centronics 
interface should work whether it. is 
an Amstrad one or not. The 
varieties include 80- arid 135-column 
dot matrix machines, daisywheel 
printers and even colour plotters. So 
long as it has Centronics signals the 
printer should be satisf^tory. I must 
point out that a number of printers, 
daisywheels in particuJar; have a feA/ 
different characters for some of the 
codes. They can even have 
characters which are not on the 
keyboard. Good word processors 
provide the option to alter character 
codes to cure such problems. 
Modifying the CPC Translation Table 
is another way. 

The standard Centronics 
connector has 36 pins but the CPC 
has only 34, There is a good reason 
for the difference but it does not 
really concern us. Rn 1 to pin 1 aligns 
the signal correctly so that the 
BUSY. STROBE and data lines are 
matched with the printer This can 
be seen cleariy in chapter seven of 
your computer manual, Note that 
pins 16 and 36 are missing from the 
diagram, since the computer does 
not have them, but the pin numbers 
match those of the printer. 

Some Centronics printers and 
computers have fewer pins but still 
employ the same signals. A 
comparison of the printer and 
computer pinouts will show what to 
connect to where. Apart from the 
seven data bits the only two lines 
used by the CPC are the STROBE, 
pin 1, which the computer pulses tow 
to tell the printer that valid data is 
available on the data lines, and BUSY, 


pin 11. which the printer sends to say 
"I am not ready for any more yet.” 
All handshaking is done with these 
two. 

Unusually, the CPC outputs seven 
data bits instead of eight because 
the original PMP1 printer cannot 
make use of the eighth bit even if it 
were theme. Most printers, however, 
have a second character set or 
graphics characters above code 127 
and a 1 on the eighth bit CD7) is 
needed to get at them. 

Unfortunately we cannot just 
open the machine and connect D7 of 
the data bus to D7 of the printer port 
because the data lines of the port 
are not connected to the interna! 
bus. They come straight from an 



*'The standard 

Centronics 

connector has 36 

pins but the CPC 

has only 34/* 


8-bit latch in the CPC and the eight 
bits consist of seven data bits and 
one STROBE line. We could change 
the software to turn the STROBE 
line into the eighth bit but where 
would we then find the rkecesssry 
STROBE pulse? Alas, seven data 
bits and 1 STROBE are all we are 
given. 

All ts not lost. KDS Electronics 
produces an 8-bit printer port which 
plugs on to the 34-way printer outlet 
and, after running a small piece of 
software, is invisible to the user If a 
high character is sent to the printer 
it gets there and. if the printer has 
a top set, it will be printed. 

To check if your printer has such 
a set. find the self-test routine in its 
manual. It is usually activated by 
turning it on at the same time as 
depressing a switch. My machine 
needs the line feed pressed. This wiil 
print-out all the printer characters, 
top set included. The KDS 8-bit port 
sells for 610,95 and is available from 
mail order advertisers in this 
magazine. 

We have already seen what this 
device can do so we will go straight 
into how it vy/orks. V\fe need to create 
the eighth data bit (D7), set it to 0 or 
1 depending on the character code 
and leave it set until the printer has 
received all the characters. We do it 
by intercepting the firmware routine 
MC WAIT PRINTER and running 
automatically our pece of eighth bit 


setting software. Then we jump 
back to MC WAIT PRINTER, which 
will continue as normal and, among 
other things, change D7 into the 
STROBE signal. 

The method is simple and uses 
one-half of a dual D-type flipfiop chip 
which sends the output Q to the 
same logic level as input D when 
input C goes from low to high. It 
keeps Q at that level until the next 
time C goes high. If you look at the 
logic diagram you will see that data 
lines D5 and D6 are fed from the 
computer printer port to inputs C 
and O and the created D7 is output 
from Q and fed to the printer. 

A 'shifty' bit of thinking will reveal 
that, if we shift the original D7 of the 
character to D6 and make D5 go low 



latched at Q. Bar Q is always the 
logical opposite of Q and is not 
connected. Bar R and bar S are 
Reset and Set pins and are tied high 
to prevent them operating. 

The listed program needs to be 
typed-in and saved. Run It whenever 
the printer is to be used. Lines 10 and 
20 replace the start address of MC 
WAIT PRINTER in the computer 
jump table, with the Start address of 
our machine code routine. The rest 
of the program pokes our machine 
code into a small unused area of 
memory starting at ScBFIO. 

Do not type this is. It is the data of 
the Basic program; 

When this program is reached the 
original character to be sent to the 


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printer te in the accumulaftor with D7 
intact. 


Edge 
connector 
34-way 

MicroStyle 

E(34W 

90 pence. 

Through 

connector 

34'Way 

MicroStyle 

TC34W 

£2. 

Capacitor 

Maplin 

YR75S 

8 pence. 

Wire Maplin 

BL92A 

28 pence. 


If there ane prot>ems obtaining any 
parts, MicroStyle will supply the full 
kit for £4.50 including postage. 

Maplin Electronics, PO Sox 3, 
Rayleigh, Essex SS6 2BR. Tel; 0702 
554161. 

MicroStyle, 212 Dudley Hill Road, 
Bradford, Vbrkshire BD2 3DF Tel: 
0274 636652, 

Tansy - see local Yellow Pages 
under Electrical Supplies Retailers. 

The diagrams are straight¬ 
forward with just a few points to 
mention. One is that no 5V power is 
available from the printer port, so 
we are powering the fllpflop from 
inside the computer by connecting 
5V to pin 15 of the computer printer 
connector. 

This means opening the machine 
by turning it over, taking out the six 
screws, turning it back, taking out 
the two disc drive screws and lifting 
the top, A wire can then be soldered 
between pin 27 of the 50-way 
expansion connector and pin 15 of 
the 34-way edge connector and the 
machine closed again. Both pins are 
On top of the board and are easy to 
peach. 

The data line D7. from Ci goes to 
the printer on pin 9 of the through 
connector - marked TC in the 
layout diagram - but pin 9 from the 
computer is grounded, so do not 
connect that pin to the through 
connector; cut it off after soldering 


it to the board. In the same way we 
do not want the 5V going to the 
printer, so solder it to the board and 
cut off the rest of tiie pin. The board 
will need to be cut down to allow 
room for large peripherals on the 
expansion socket. Leave the 
through connector until last or 
soldering wires can be difficult. 

In the layout diagram wires on top 
of the board are solid* those 
underneath are dotted. The chip and 
edge connector fit on the top. The 
half moon shape indicates the notch 
or dot on the chip. Both through and 
edge connectors are polarised, SO be 
sure to fit them the correct way 
round- The capacitor - two short 
parallel lines - may be placed any 
way round, 

1: saves the character and flags on 
the stack, 

2: rotates the accumulator right 
placing D7 (8th bit) in D6. 

3: printer port address into 
register B 

4; re-set D7 and D5 to O leaving D6 
intact. When D7 goes out the printer 
reads it as STROBE, As it is inverted 
along the way we send a 0 to keep 
it high, 

5: output the accumulator to the 
printer port. This makes sure that C 
on the fllpflop (DS) is low. If it is not 
in a low state it certainly cannot go 
high. High followed by high will not 
trigger It, 

6: set D5 to 1 leaving D6 and D7 
intact. 

7: output to printer port sending C 
high and latching D6 in Q The eighth 
bit is now latched. 

S: bring back the original character 
and flags from the stack. 

9; jump to MC WAIT PRIWTER, 
This is the usual address found In the 
jumpblock which we have replaced. 

When built, the 0-bit port slides on 
to the computer printer port and the 
printer cable attabches to its through 
ccnnector. Both the 34'way through 
connector and the 34-way long pin- 


edge connector are non-standard 
parts and cannot be found. We have 
a solution to the problem. MicroStyle 
will supply specially-made parts to all 
who want them. 

The machine code is located at 
&BF10 to &BF1F which is an area of 
memory not generally used and 
which will survive a re-set. If strange 
things occur with the S-bit port 
attached it may be that some 
software also wishes to use that 
area. If this problem occurs, lowering 
HiMEM by 16 bytes and locating the 
code above it would solve it. The 
Basic program would need to be 
changed to perform this task and 
the new start address would need 
to be poked into SiBDFIG, low byte 
first. 

It wiJl not be long before you 
wonder what happens if you 
connect your printer to the 



Is sent down the line I have specified 
connecting the 5V to pin 15 and, on 
all the printers I have checked, 
including a Citizen, a Sharp and a 
Samleco, this pin is unused and 
unconnected. I cannot guarantee it 
but it seems to be standard, so 
check your printer pinouts to make 
sure. 

All that is left now is for 
everybody to dust their soldering 
irons and to get Stuck into the 
printer's extra charact^s. would 
be interested to receive any clever 
programs which use the port for 
printing pictures or whatever. 
Problems with particular software 
and solutions would also be 
welcome. 


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This month*s 
seiection was 

chosen to relax, 

entertain and strain 

the old brain box. 


PUZZLE 


BY BJORNAR 
6RANBALEN 


This little mind boggier will 
keep you occupied for weeks. 
A four by four grid is drawn on 
the screen with a shape 
drawn in it. After hitting a key 
the shape disappears, only to 
reappear a short time later 
jumbled. Vbu must restore the 
shape to its former 
dimensions by moving the 
rows and columns of the grid, 
achieved by pressing the keys 
from A to H. 

Eight shapes of varying 
complexity ensure that many 
hours of lateral thinking will be 
required before you can say 
you have conquered the 
pnDgram* 


1 ok=l: Li:l :FOR zsl tO eiWEAU w ( z t ; KEXT i DIM PiH3);FOR TO HSiHEAD PIkI.PHIN 

T:NE>;T:M0DE 1 : CALL ABCS? i PEN 3: PAPER e:1NK 9.13: INK 3.9« : e 3 = CHRS I 1« )-l-CHii. 

* (e> ; INPUT"B(3ar<itA-H) : , nS :ii* = L’PP£BS(isJ) ; IF ftS>"«‘AND THEN L^ASCf A*)-6H jD 

ATA 1 a.17.9.16 [F71 

2 CLSiWJWUOKf*! , 12 .SB . * . SW : PAPEK*! . 1!L'L3* 1! WINDOW* 1,13,27,5,19 ; PAPER* 1.2 iCLS# 1 iFO 
H xt8 to 19 STEP :LOCATE 13,1 PAPER 1;PRINT SPACES<15):NEXTrFOR *=16 TO 2fi STEP 

A: FOB y = A TO SBLLOCATE *,y :Pft| ST’' ~ ; NEXT y,jc:ts»:FOR r=l TO A:FOR TO 4:b{y. 

x)=P{L»16tt) [74] 

3 ENV 1.16 ,-1.6'NEXT x,ir:lNK a. w[L): BORDER wU): SYMBOL AFTER 32:SyillBOL AS. 
B:SYMBOL 49.255,256,255,2S5,2SS,2SS.2SS,255:fOP x=13 TO 28 STEP 4 I PEN 3;LOCATE x 
, 3 IPRINT"! 1" :NEXT: FOR s-5 TO 29 STEF 4 l LOC.ATE 1 1 . jl : PRINT"! jyS 1NEXT: PENAl , 3 : 
DATA 11,6.3,4 [D7] 

4 FOR ysl TO 4; FOR k?! TO 4'*Ilsboilf*l,9’t(4»xF,llt(l*x),l+(4*yll,3t(4*y):PAPER*l,2: 
PRINTS! .BINS (bty,x I , 9) NEXT ii,y:FOR )c=l TO 4 : PEN 2;PAPEft 0; LOCATE 9+(i44 ) .2:PRI 
NT CHR5(68 + 11);LOCATE 1«, 1+(x*4)!PRINT CHRS(SS'X)■NEXT:DATA ..,..494,157,..235,?S 
. [DAl 

5 CALL tBB!a:INK J,13:FOR 7=1 TO IB + L* S : csl+IrfTI BNO* B) ; PEN 3iG0SlJB 6 ■ NEXT:ok=0; I 
NK 3.25: SOUND 1,6,69,1 5 , 1, . 31 :SOCJND 2.9.76.12 . 1 . . 9 :PaPEII »:SPEED INK $.a:DATA .9 
4 . 273. .54. .,273.273...54. , 273.54. .495.455,455,461,365 132] 

6 a*iL'PPEftS[INKEV5};IF oS?""TH£N IF ASC(aJ)>64 AND ASC{aS)<73 THEN e=ASC(a*)-64: 

PEN 3: IF THEN LOCATE 11.21 -{r 14 ) : PRINT CHH$( 1 39^6* :0HRl{139 I :GOSUB RiOOSUB 
I« ELSE LOCATE 9+H t:-4 I^4).3:PRINT CHRtU49) iCHHIU4«I:GOSUB 9:GOSUB IBiDATA .,3 
65,365,, [F3] 

7 IF at=CHRSf1Z7ITHEN RL’N ELSE IF ok THEN e=1+INTfRND*8):IF c<5 THEN GOSUB 8:RET 
URN ELSE GOSUB 9:RETURN:ELSE IP ok=9 THEN BiDATA 365.369.455.456.335,94,419.149, 
273,232,84,273.73,ZS2,273.84.73,273,7,7.84,273.404,457,84,484.256,64.467,236,4,1 
.79 1461 

a k = 5-c : l='b{k . 1 I : b(k . 4) =’bik , 3 ) : b(h , 3) =b4k, 2 ) : k,2) =b<k . I ) :b(k . 1 > = ! : FOR 1 TO 4 

: W1ND0W41,3+4 *li. 11 f 4 • h, 1 + 4 * k. 3+4 *k ; PRINT#! .BIN* (b( k,M , 3) : r NEXT: LOCATE II, l + 4#h: 
PRINT"1",aSI"I";o=HND:RETURN;D.ATA 84,235.75,273.434.457.26,50.235,79,152.176.3 [ 
90) 

9 k=c-4:t=bn.k> ib(4 ,k)-bt3,k|i ;b(3,k)=bU,k) :b(2.k)=btl,k) :bU.li} = t:F0R h=l TO 4 
: WINDOW*! , 3+4»h. Il+4*k. l+4*h . 3+4*111 PRINT*! ,BlN*(b( ti.h) . 3) ; iNEXTi LOCATE 3+( lo-4 
4 1.3:PR!NT''1 I-;otRND;RETURN:DATA 56,56,36,72,56.56,288,1.224.392,1,164,484.457,1 
37,290 [51] 

! 

:10 Vi0;u=-1;FOR z = l TO 4 ; FOR o-l TO 4;u=u*l;IF bl z, o ] =:P ( (16* L)+□ J THEN v-v+l;(IEXT 
' o,?:IF V=ia THEN [NK 2,26,U;INK 3,13.26:CALL ABHl3:RUN:ELSE RETURN;ELSE EtETUHN 
:DATA 235, 79 .74,64.3S,14,255.465.407.215,461,377,176,152,380,125,50,25,317,359,4 
70.467,335 [22] 


EYE 

BY B. WOOB 


Multi-coloured mania on your 
Amstrad as the program 
entertains with a series of 
colourful starbursts followed 
by an eye of many colours. 


19 OH BREAK GOSUB 89 ]E6] 

26 MODE 0!?s0;i = lir = e;INK «,0:[NH !.15;IWK 2,Hr INK 3,6:IKK 4.0;INK 5,18;INK 6 2 
4;INK T.S:1NK 6,2$:INK 3,19:1NK 19,5:INK 11,17:INK t2,7;IffH 13,22:INK 14,«;PAPER 
0:GRAPH ICS PEN 1:BORDER « :00T0 89 [CC] 

39 FOR q=l TO 15;1=INT(14*RND!+1:isIHTt639*RHD>;y=INT(496»RND);ssINTf24«*RND(+29 
;i>=TNT<l5*RND)+l:0RAPH[CS PEN i;FOR &rl TO 369 STEP p:NsIHT(B00*RND}+39:DEG:PLOT 
*.y:DRAW ii+e»COS(q) ,v+s*SINlfli) :NEXT nrNEKT q [22] 

49 1 = 0; x=329:y = 2ft9 : tjsl30 : 5 = 300 : FOR e=l TO 14 : t=IKT| 2*RNDM3 :FOH a = l TO 369 STEP 
I; DEG: PLOT *.y:DflAW xtstC0S(a] ,y id^SINfa) :NBKT a: (l=d-14 : 3 = a -1 $: 1= ■ 1 1 ;GRAFHI0S PE 
N i:NEXT c [2D] 

59 GRAPHICS PEN 0 ; x= 320 :y = 290 :FOR :» = ! TO 330 STEP 3;DEG;PL0r ic.y;DRAW xtl3*0OS{a 
!,y+13»SIK(B>:NEXT a [E2) 

60 GRAPHICS PEN 8:b= 320:y=200 FOR a=l TO 360 STEP 3;DEO:PLOT x,r:DRAW x+8*C0S[a} 
.y+S*SIN(4> I :NEXr a 134] 

70 FOR = l TO 4000 :NEXT ;GOTO 30 [86] 

89 CL5;0HAPHIC3 PEN 5:PLOT 1.1;DRAW 639.1;DHAW 639,383:DRAt l.sgg'DRAf l,t:PEN 1 
;LOCATE T,5;PHINT-E ¥ E-sPEN 2:LOCATE 2,iZsPRINT-l..pun t7B] 

89 a*=INHEV*:IF at:"!" THEM CLSiRUN 30 [BE] 

190 IF aS="2' THEN MODE 1;L1ST ELSE 90 [B9] 


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F 

BY 

DAVID HALL 

Having escaped from Hell, 
Percy is in the death room 
south of Heaven. By bouncing 
between the top and bottom 
walls F^ercy can accumulate 
points which, when reaching 
2,000, will set him free. To 
complicate matters, touching 
either of the side walls or the 
two moving crosses results in 
Percy losing the game. Control 
is left and right with joystick 
and Space bar to start a new 
game. 



le MEMORY S993 : l = ieeoe':FOR «n=l TO SPREAD aS : FOR t = l TO LEMlaS) STEF £ : POKE 1 , VAL 

n-'+MIDSUS-t-.S) t i l=lti;NEXT;HEXT: TO a:READ fl$ : FOR t = l TO LFUio 

STEP fi;PCiKE 1. VAL( "t~ + MI0S(i.l. t, 2) )■ ; 1 = 1 fl :SEXT;HEXT rA2] 

E« SPEED INK I.12.£4:INK S.15:MODE d:INK 0.e:RORDER «:PAPER e:CLS:PEN 

11;PAPER 3!FOR t=l TO Sfl;PRINT CHBSfH»)[iNEXTiPEN 3;PAPER lliLOCATE 1,23:FOR ts 
1 m 2*:PRINT CHH*(140):iNEXT:PAPER 0;PEN 7:PRINT "A SCORE *" [35] 

3fl PLOT 0,48,a:DHAWR 0,334;PLOT S36,I8;DRAWR 0,334;PAPER 0;PEN 12.PRINT ~t South 
Of Naaven. 4: CALL 10000:1.0CATE 7,12;PEN tS: PRINT 'THE END'M * = 1 NHEVt: W 

HILE ISc*' i iE^INKEYt-IfEND! WHILE i$0- " ; iJ = 1PJKEYE : WLND: GOTO £?■ [F5] 

DATA 2 lF4Ci:*&503BAf G4C&22 A&aC2 1 FeD&2 2.<l3aC3E 

0132A5SCCDJ92 7CI3EB27CD&C283AB18CFE00C0ieF22M«gC#B07363&2 31(?FB211fl^C€D'?6eBaHligC 
06077eCD5ABB£B10f 9Cr9CD6&272M19C7EFE302&«53G3023iaF63JaaDA3E«7CD5ABB3E05fll000flCD 
32BCCD97273E&1 [2a] 

50 DATA 32B4BG2A5a98113^50CDA7271E0^0ECa®6CB0010FD0D20F01D20F3C9&EL6li506fl«lA772S 
1310fAElCD2eBC0C'20F0C92AS89&2BOD2 9BC2262 9a7EFE002eB0] 109e0197EFEfle20A72Aa2‘9BllF0 
0&iaCD2BBC7EFE® 02098 ll&ae0197EFE0fl200FCBDD21Ae8CCDF627DD21A3BC:DD&e0lDD^E-fl*aDD7E«S 

Ft®1203211070® [®BJ 

60 DATA ia061G360#CD2SBC10F8DDt601DD6E0®2B7EFE0020043E02ig2FT)D7&0®DD74BlCDBA27DD 
6E00DDG6®niD04EC3A727fte)636a0CD2aBC10FBDDS&«lDD6E00110a®01B7EFE®fl280S3E®IDD7702 
C 9DD6 601DD6 E 0®2 31BC4CD B A2 7 3 A E4 80 FE® 00 0 3E4 l EBS 2^ « 5 O DD 1 2 S J. ft 0a 3 E J a CD 1 EEEC 4 EE 2 a 3 A 
5A98FE01200JaE [79] 

7® DATA ®£ie0®FEB12®0e3£®L3S6B8eCD«627^ASB9eF£®l2a«2ie02ID162A5e9fl®6003G®fl£31®FB 
2A&305CD26BCaA5A9a3ClBlB2A5Sg80S15CD2SBC10FBfl60a36002310FB2A5e98GD28BC3A5A8B3D32 
5A9fi1&1M07®0190B163§0®CD26BO10T9^A5e9a£B22599ftll2»4EC3A7272A5e9a®eiS3a00 
CD26BC10F82A58 [M] 

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®00&0FeF0F0FeA0&fl0050FeF0F0F0A000®0F0C0F®F0C0F00000F0C0F®F@CflF00000E@C0D®E0C0D00 
#S0E0C«D0E0C®D0A®G0F0F0FflF0E0F®A0$®^'0F0E®D®F0F0A0S®F0E0E0D0F0F0A090F0F0C0C0F0F0A 
0$0F®F®C0O0FeF0 [90] 

Be DATA A05&FeD0F0F0E0F0e000F®C0EflE0F.0F0®e00F®C0C0C0C0F0e000FeC0CflC0C0A0e0005®E0 
E 0 F0De A 0 0 0 0® £ 0 F® f a F 0 F 0 0® e » » 0® « $ 0 F® F0 0 0 0 0®®CC(;COOCCCOCOOCCCft ft 00 ft&0000d^00448 acc3 a 
«C0C44CCI^0:BCCeB®DlE^1CCi488CG800DlE^^CC4 483CCa80D]LE44CC4 480CCe3&DLE4^CC44e8CCSe 
0D1E44CC4iaaeo [7 d] 

100 DATA- 8fl0DlE4 4CG4A&aCCa80DtE44CC44CCCCaa0DlE4JCCCCSE0fle00DlE000®143a0C0C0DlE0 
C0C44aE0D0F®K0F®FlF44Ba®D0F0F®F0FlE448B0UeF0FeF0FlE448eiC3C2DlE3C5O44ftft0e000DIE0 
0004 4 CCCC 8 80D L E 4 4 CCCC 8aGC8 81C 3 C4 4 CCA i 83008 8000044 0044 COCCCCCCCCCCGCCC [BB] 



DY 

DAVID HALL 


Percy Pumpkin has been 
taken to Hell for being such a 
good boy. Can you help him 
avoid the Devil’s minions? This 
Joystick-only game requires 
you to avoid as many inverted 
crosses a possible but the left 
and right controls are reversed 
to add new dimensions of 
complexity. Gaining 1,000 
points saves Ffercy from Hell. 
Note that touching the walls is 
also fatal. 


IB JNK } . 12.24 : MEHORV 9R9 9 : 1 = 2««e« : FOR k = l TO 3 : READ e>S;FCiR t = ]l TO LEN(at) STEP 
£: P0KE 1 ,VAL{'■l"tHlDJ<aS , t ,?)»; lil + 1 ; NEXT; NEXT; l=lfl«00 i FOB h=tl TO 5 ; READ aJ.; FOR 
t=l TO LENIqS) step 2:poke 1,VaL(" f'+MIDS(at,1.Si):1=1+1:NEXT:NEXT [A1] 

2fl COSUB 109.FOR t = l TO 22 STEP 2;LOCATE 2<i.t:PEN R:PR I NT b*?:LOCATE S«.t + 1:PEN 
IS-PRINT bt; :NEXT:PR 1 NT:PEN 3:PR1HT "4 SCORE *"| ;PEN 7;PRINT 't Hell Awaits 
f;:PEH IBjCALL IbbUeiFEN iSrLOCATE 5.i3:PftlNT - Oame Ovar . . ”: FOR L=1 TO S** 
b;NEXT:GOTO 2* [SB] 

30 DATA 00000000Fg0000000®®000!^lA2®000000®0000]1^20®00000000F0F0F0F0000000E0F0F0 
F0F0A0000fl50F®F0F0F®A00000F0C0F0F0G0F00000F0C0F0F0C0F00000E0C0D0E0C0D00050E0C0D0 
E0C 0D0 A 0 S0F0 F 0F0 F 0 F0 F 0 A 0 5 0 F0 F 0£0 V 0F® F0 A 0 &0F® F 0 E® Dft F®F0 A 0 S ®F® F&C® C 0 F® F® A 0 S0F0 F 0C0 
C0F0F0A050F0D0 tSll 

4 0 DATA F 0 F® E0 F® 0 0 00F0 C 0 E 0E0 E 0F0 0 0 0fl F0 C0C 0Ce C 0 Ffl 0 0 00Ffl C0(;0C® C0A® ® 0 00 S ® E0 E 0 Ffl D0 A® 
®®00S0F0F0F0F00000000050F0F®00®00000®®54FCCFBA00000000a400008A000000005400008A00 
0000005448458A0®®000®®00AB45000000000000A84900000000®®«0AB4500000000®®00Aft46®00® 
00000000AB4500 !5B] 

S0 DATA 000000000®A845®00000E4FC«0A845«0CF8A5454FCA845CFeA8A5400®0102®®®00ftAS400 
0010200®®0ftA54000010200000BAG4ft4FCAft4SCF8A8A54FC00AB4500CF8A®00000A345®00000000® ^ 

54Aa4S3A00000®00&40000&A®00&0®0e540000BA00000fl0054FCCF-&A.AF32A0ftCagSD9a32629a219 
DC22£5e9a3E13 [55] 

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10FE21180CCD75BB314e8C0$077ECD5ABB2B10F9Cg2l4l8C7EFE3920fl53630231BF6341BDD3A628B i 

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6£9aFE442B133C (6Bl 

70 DATA 32658a2A6388CD3FS9£Ae39a2322G39818GflAFft26^90CDftB£72A639aieS33A5D8BFE0020 
lE3C3jSD9ftED5FFE4a30FAFE0D38Fft$03260982eCftGF3E0i32&lB82D225E9B3Aftl9ftFE8D2a2DCG®2 
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4 Eia 3 DAf32SD8a [69] 

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BC®6e57EFE00C2232e2$53S®F6C9CD6^233AA®SCF£®&C:03E4BCDlEBB2805CD232BI80A3E4ACDlEBB 
2603CD33 2a3E48CDlEBB201932 Aft69806®836002310FB£A589ftCD26BC22589311204EC3&l£®SASft98 

11F00W19CD29BC [61] 

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8C&2A5898CD3F2gSASa 9823198006163600t:D26ftC10F9C9:INK 0.0:BORDER ®;inK 6.1S:PAPER , 

0:bftcCHRt^Z03> ®:LOCATE 1.22 FOR t-® I'O 9:PEN 9;PBI NT b5i;PEN l2:PRINT bS; : 

MEST:RETURN [D0j 


P8081S 


Mmstrai B$$f taatist 1S83 






HOT CITY 

BY 

DAVID HALL 

Crank up the stereo to full 
volume and run this program. 
Kaleidoscopic patterns pulsate 
before your eyes at one of 50 
speeds. 

KILL 'EM 
ALL 

BY 

DAVID HALL 

Shoot-*em'Up time as you blast 
the marauding aliens out of 
the sky. Control moves your 
ship left, Copy moves your ^ip 
right, Space bar shoots, or use 
joystick. Reach 2,000 points 
and you have saved the Earth. 


ITALICS 

BY 

DAVID HALL 

An italic character set for your 
CPC. 



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90 1=20*00: FOR m = l TO 3 : ftEAD it: FOR t-1 TO LEN(at^ STEP 2:PC5KE 1 . VaL{ 4MIDS (at 
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faI 


10 SYMBOL AFTER 33 [3El 


20 FOE t=40964 TO 42740 STEP 6 [2S] 


30 FOR k=t TO t+l;POKE k,PEEK(k)/2:NEXT [15] 


40 FOR k=t+5 TO t+7 [65] 


50 a = PEEK(k):IF a>127 THEN a5ta-128 (9F ] 


60 POKE k,a*2:NEXT:NEXT [47] 


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UPSDEDOWN CIURACIERS 
n 


Drive your friends crazy with 
this upside-down character 
set. 



le SYMBOL AFTER ^3:CLS [86] 

20 at="I‘ll Turn you UpS(EE] 

^ PRINT aSrPOR t=40964 TO 42740 STEP 8 [B6] 
40 l = t + 7: F-0R kit TO t+3 (B2 J 
50 a=PEERtH) :l3=PEEK[ I ) [10] 

60 POKE k.biPOKE 1.a;1 = 1-1 [DA] 

7 0 I4EXT; NEXT; PRINT aS [4A] 


SHAKE 

BY 

R. NHIRPHY 


1 remember buying this game 
many years ago and it still 
manages to get me back to 
the keyboard. The aim is 
simple - just guide your 
snake round the arena eating 
the pills as you go but beware 
because colliding with either 


the walls or your tail is fatal. 
There is, of course, a catch to 
this game and that is your tail. 
The offending appendage 
grows with each pill 
consumed, thus making it 
more difficult to avoid. 


10 DI:MODE 1:BORDER 0:INE 0.1:INK 1.26:INK 2,24:INK 3,2:WINDOW#!.1.40.1,3:PAPER# 
1, 3 ; PEN#1.2 : CLStl : LOCATE 14, 14 : PR I NT"Key s : Z . X , + , ? " : LOCATE 10, 18 : PftI NT‘*SPACE or F 
IRE to start" :PEN#1,2:PRINT#1,TABU7) ; "SNAKX" : IF s%>hi% THEN hi%=s% [52] 


20 LOCATE#! , 1,2 :PEN#1,1 :PRINT#1, "Score s%; TAB ( 30 ) ; "Hi : " ; hi*: WINDOWt0,1,40,4.26 

:x$ = "0<l®© ■■ = " :dx%=0;dy%=-l ; sX = 0: fs* = 0 : fy* = 0 :ft*=0:k3 = "*" ; while k$<>" " 

AND k$<>"Z" AND k$<>" X" :kS = INKEYS:WEND:CLS#0:PEN 1;FRAME:EVERY 50 GOSUB 90:DI[26] 


30 a*=LEN(x$):x%=ASC(MIDS(x*.1)):y*=ASC[MID$(y$,1>):ox*=ASC(MID$(x3,a*)):oy%=ASC 
(MID${y$,Q%)):LOCATE ox%,oy%:PRINT" ";:x$ = LEFTS(xS.aX-1):yS::LEFTS{y$,a*'1):x*=x* 
+ dx!C: y*=y%+dy* [0E] 

40 PEN 1:IF x*=0 OR x*=41 OR y*=0 OR y*=23 THEN SOUND 1,999,25,15...31:GOTO 10 E 
LSE xS=CHR$(x*)+xS;y$=CHR3(y*)tyS:LOCATE x*,y%:IF COPYCHR$[#0)=CHR$(202) THEN SO 
UND 1.999.25,15..,31:GOTO 10 [A6j 

50 PEN 1:PRINT CHR$(202);:IF x%=fx* AND y%=fy% THEN ENT 1,3,5,1.6,^5,1.30.1,1:50 
UND 2,100,39,12,.1:F0R f*=l TO R0UND(ft%/2):xS^xStRICHTS(xS,1):yS=y$+RIGHT3(yS,1 
):NEXT:fx*=0:LOCATE#l.15,3:PRINT#1.SPACES(10);:s*=s*+10»ft* [6A] 

60 El:IF JOY{0)=1 THEN dx%=0:dy*=-l ELSE IF JOY(0)=2 THEN dx*=0:dy*=L ELSE IF JO 
Y(0)=4 THEN dx%=-l:dyXs0 ELSE IF JOY(0)=8 THEN dx*=l:dy*=0 [CF] 

70 IF 1NKEY(28)=0 THEN dx*=0:dy*=-l ELSE IF INKEY(30)=0 THEN dx*=0:dy%-l ELSE IF 
INKEY{71)=:0 THEN dK%='l:dy%=0 ELSE IF INKEY (63)=0 THEN dx*=l:dy*=0 [58] 

80 DI;akX = 0:LOCATE#!,7.2:PRINT#1, s%, SPACES(10);:LOCATE#!.15 + ftX,3:PRINTtl," '* i;! 
F s%<0 THEN PEN 1:SOUND 1.999.25.15,,,31:GOTO 10 ELSE GOTO 30 t3E] 

90 DI:IF &kX=l THEN RETURN ELSE hX=POS[#0):vX=VPOS(#0}:SOUND 4,9,1,9...9;IF fxX< 
1 THEN fxX*2+INT(RND*3B):fyX=2+lNT(RND*20) ELSE ftX=ftX-l:IF ftX=0 THEN sX=sX-10 
0:LOCATE fxX,fyX:PRlNT" LOCATE hX.vXifxX=0;GOTO 90 ELSE akX=l:RETURN [F91 

100 LOCATE fxX.fyXtIF CQPYCHRS{#0}=CHH$(202) OR {fxX=oxX AND fyX=oy%) THEN fxX=0 
:GOTO 90 ELSE ftX=10:LOCATE#!,15,3:PRINT#1.STRINGS(10.CHRS{143)):PEN 2:PRINT CHR 
$(231)::PEN 1;LOCATE hX.vX:akX=l;RETURN [5B] 




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Calllornlan 
dreaming 
In Langley 


Adrian Pumphrey 

talks to the guys 

and dolls at E.A. 

and writes nice 

things under threat 

of a drive in 

Lesley's car. 



P3g8 30 


Minstrsa Oserimst 1383 































M any a stranige concept has 
crossed the Atlantic from 
the sunny shores .of 
California. As a result of the many 
hours spent under a cruel sun whilst 
consuming many a variety of drink, 
who would not be slightly crazy 
faced with hour upon hour of 
glorious sunshine. 

Despite its outwardly normal 
appearance the Electronic Arts 
building holds a few unusual 
concepts and more than a few 
unusual people. It is most unsettling 
to walk into a.bustling office to see 
endless rows of smiling faces, not a 
stress line between them. That is 
until they step Into the car of public 
relations person Lesley Mansford, 
Everything you ever heard about 
women drivers seems quite 


probable when f^ed by the Bodacia 
style driving tactics of the ever 
helpful Lesley. 

it all began way back in 1982 when 
William M. 'Trip' Hawkins convinced 
financier Don \felentirve to part with 
his money. Hawkins left his job as 
director of marketing for Apple to 
set up E. A. because to quote a cliche, 
he believed in the industry. With a 
firm belief in the industry he set 
forth to produce his own brand of 
interactive fiction. Designed not only 
to entertain but suspend the belief of 
the user by trarvsporting them to 
worlds of fanrtasy and impossible 
dreams. Co-founder Tim Mott 
brought his University management 
and research skills and was 
instrumental in developing the E.A. 
workstation. The third head honcho 
worked his way up through the 
ranks and now resides as head of 



product development. Mark Lewis. 

To aid in the creation of these 
flights of fantasy the humble 
programmer, the life blood of the 
industry, is known as a software 
artist. With this title comes the 
freedom an artist needs to create 


works of wonder. Each software 
artist uses a modified AT which is 
supplied by E.A. along with various 
programming and all important 
debugging tools, E.A. even has a 
Greativity division which produces 
software tools for the software 
artistes, One such inhouse 
development tools was Deluxe Paint 
\A^ich turned out to be the first best 
seller for the company. 

In 19S7 the company decided it 
was time to move abroad and it set 


up bases in Australia, Japan and 
England, Continuing with the 
expansion plans the company is 
investing in the technology of 
tfMTiorrow. CD-I is of great interest to 
E.A. and the company is developing 
a working system which will give the 
user television quality pictures 
coupled with compact disk quality 
sound. Past technological 
breakthroughs include hardware 
which allowed video and computer 
grsphics to be mixed. 

Electronic Arts was created not 
only to make money and produce 
great interacti ve entertainment but 
to provide an environment the 
founders wished to work in. To help 
them create this rarefied 
atmosphere they have a rather 
elaborate interviewing system. Eight 
hours of interviews with not only the 
employer but the people the 
prospective worker will be working 
with. This ensures that everybody 
gets along with each other and 
accounts for all those smiling faces 
which populate the E.A, offices. 
Employees are actively encouraged 
to take part in the working of the 
company and each week they all get 
together over a few drinks and 
discuss where they are going and 
how to get there. 

E,A, drew many of its early 



management ideas from the record 
industry. It drew comparisons 
between the varied tastes and fads 
of the record sales and ^plied them 
successfully to the world of 
computer games. Another 
idiosyncrasy of the industry the 
company had to face was the 
mercurial nature of the 
programmers - or as E.A. likes to 
say software artists. They 
surmounted many of the problems 
by creating teams comprised of 


artists, programmers and musicians 
that not only got on well with each 
other but complemented each 
others skills. At ttie moment most of 
the software being published by the 
company comes from America but 
With the formation of the English 
and other bases new sources are 
starting to emerge. Due to the 
development times involved the first 
English E.A, products are only now 
hitting the streets. 

Initially the company found the 
emerging technology crude and 
incapable of fulfilling the dream of 
true interactive entertainment. With 
the advent of the 16-bit machine the 
dream took a bold step forward. 
The month the company was 
formed a report was published 
which named one hundred and 
thirty five software publishing 
companies. E.A. thinks of itself as 
the hundred and thirty sixth 
company. From this relatively late 
start the company now see itself as 
the world leader as far as sales and 
profitability is concerned. 

I think Lesley was not too happy 
about my comments about her 
driving and as I race for the train I can 
see her standing there with the car 
door open saying, "would you tike a 
lift to the station," tike a Siren inviting 
sailors to a watery grave. 



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skateboarding with SAate or Die to the dark 
side of the future with the Par ano i a Complex. 


For the trigger-happy there is WWII action 
1942 and for the more genteel readers the 

aptly-named bat-and-ball game Batty. 


All the world is a pinball 
machine and you are the 
guy who will tilt those 
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Battle your way through 
hostile seas to encounter 
the enemy bases where the 
bad guys are dying to meet 

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Code Masters 

Turbo Esprit 

Encore 

Spy Hunter 

Kixx 

Drigon Ninja 

Ocean 

Sban^ Warriors 

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Fun Scbool 2 

Database/Mandarin 

SAS Combat 

Code Masters 

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Ocean 

Aier Burnet 

AcUvision 

Arcade Muscle 

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Operation Wolf 

Ocean 

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T he history books state 
that in the year 1479 a 
squire by the name of 
Helfyre dominated the small 
village of Loxton, His 
domination was evil and throu^ 
the years he had performed 
numerous dark deedSt 
disrupting the villagers and 
causing horrid deaths. 

The people had had enough 
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night they invaded his castle. 
There was to be no nonsense. 
They dragged him out of bed, 
cut off his head swiftly and 
proceeded to bum the headle.ss 
body. 

The once-pcacefut Loxton 
people had turned savage and 
overthrev^’ their dictator. During 
their glee at being free they 
forgot one small thing, J telfyre's 
faithful man servant but, after 
all, what could he do? 

Plenty. This loyal subject 


anniversary of the death of 
Helfyre and the villagers know 
how to end the mindless havoc. 
You are the Blade Warrior, a 
ruthless fighter dedicated to 
freeing the people of Loxton. 

It is predicted that at the 
stroke of 12 the demon will 
unleash a to rrent of destruction 
on the land. The time is 23:50 
and you have just 10 minutes to 


Not so mucK cut and thrust, more leap 
and bound. 


watched the crowd of jeering 
revolutionists. Finally they left 
the scene taking the head with 
them. He watched and waited 
until the charred remains of his 
master had cooled. He gathered 
them and stole back to a secret 
chamber where the body was 
laid to rest still decapitated, but 
the servant was unable to find 
the head of his master. There 


was much left to do. The body 
was lifeless but the spirit and 
soul lived on to cause havoc 
among the unsuspecting 
villagers. 

Loxton was still very much 
under the watchful eye of 
Helfyre who, in death, had 
become the Death Demon. Evil 


deeds were still being done 190 
years later and the villagers were 
once more on the rampage, 
vowing to destroy the demon 
once and for all. 

It is the eve of 200th 


find the skull which has become 
lost and re-unite it with the 
skeleton of the evil squire. 

Blade Warrior is a typical 
budget release. It incotporates 
fair graphics, boring animation 
sequences, rough sound effects 
and bugs. A bug would seem to 
be an undocumented game 
feature these days. What with 
certain arcade conversions not 
working properly, some games 
slip through the rigorous testing 
of the Darling clan. 

The game is of the platform 
type and is particulaiiy boring to 
play. A simple plot - find a skull 
and stick it on the body when 
you find it. 

There is little more one can 
say about a game which is so 
much like any other. The 
graphics are reasonable, the 
sound is satisfactory: It plays like 
a budget game - badly - and, 
for the money it is not a 
worthwhile investment. It is best 
to save your coppers and buy a 
fulhprice game for fuller 
enjoyment, 

On a final note. Blade Warrior 
is so clever with a sword that he 
does not use it - he Just avoids 
those dangerous objects. 

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Go head-to-head with the curse of the 
ancients. 



planets of which the earth is one 

You land your clapped-out 
Sopwith Camel biplane beside 
the huge structure. Your task is 
to infiltrate the pyramid and 
destroy the top chamber before 
the sun is blocked. Not an easy 
task but^ nevertheless, one you 
may have done previously, Total 
Eclipse II asks you to return to 
Egypt and rebuild a mighty 
Sphinx which was destroyed in 
the revolution many hundreds of 
years ago. 

Like its predecessor, Thtal 
Eclipse 11 used the award* 
winning Freescape 3D graphics 
technique and good it is, too. 

The pieces of the Sphinx can 
be found littered in various 
subterranean caverns and 
rooms. You cannot just hang 
around as you must find and 
restore the sandstone statue to 


its former greatness bdiore the 
next solar eclipse - in just one 
hour. 

Playing Total Eclipse il is not 
exactly fun-packed. The 
graphics are jerky and 
somewhat slow but do not be 
deterred - The game may not be 
the fastest thing since Ben 
Johnson but it provides the 
adventurer with a hell of a 
challenge. 

Once inside the maze of 
tunnels you will find yourself lost 
and in need of liquid refresh¬ 
ment Water troughs can be 
found attached to some of the 
walls but they are few and far 
between. It is advisable to make 
a map of your route so far and to 
note where water can be found. 

Inside there are many raised 
catwalks. Some are barriered 
but most are open and falling off 
is simple. If you fall off you wilt 
black out for a short time. Some 
falls are fatal, so keep them to a 
mimmum. As you wander 



through the complex you will be 
informed if there is a piece of 
Sphinx in the room. Walk over 
to it and you will pick it up. 

Many of the doors in the 
complex are blocked, some by 
bars, others by debris situated in 
front. Debris is removed easily 
- just blast it. Bared doors are 
not so easy to open and you will 
need to think about them. 

Tbtal Eclipse IT is agreat game 
for those with plenty of time on 
their hands. It is certainly one 
for adventure fanatics but if you 
like a mental challenge you 
.should look seriously at this 
game. 


Andrew Banner 


L ong ago in the mystical 
ages of ancient Egypt the 
people were revolting. 
The High Priest had become 
angry with his flock who were 
refusing to continue the 
sacrifices to the God of the Sun, 
Re, So great was his anger that 
he cracked and cast an evil spell 
over the people. 

A shrine was erected In praise 
of the Sun God. The shrine was 
in the form of a huge pyramid, 
with a large chamber atop. The 
top chamber is cursed. If 
anything prevents the rays of the 


sun reaching the chamber 
during daylight hours the 
offending object will be turned 
to dust. 

Today is October 26, 1930 
and in just two hours there will 
be a total solar eclipse. The 


moon will cover the sun 
completely and blacken the 
eartlr. "I’he moon will be but a 
memory, the explosion causing 
the destruction of not only the 
moon but the surrounding 





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A flight of fantasy as you soar through 
the skies twin cannons blazing. 


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superbombers, Obviously 1 am 
mistaken because 1 did not know 
there was a Japanese equivalent 
of the Flying Fortress, 

What all this has to do with 
Midway is a matter of conjecture 
and inlay writers' hyperbole. 
What game is based on is the 
arcade game called 1942 from a 
few years ago. 

The first point to note is that 
the screen scrolls vertically but 


that it has been reduced in size 
and still is not particularly 
smooth, it is not so lumpy as you 
might get on a Spectrum, so 
there is at least that consolation 
and you have multi-colour 
graphics for a change. 

That is the good side; now for 


the bad news. The music on the 
title page is atrocious, It is 
supposed to be 767 Squadron 
but has been mangled virtually 
out of all recognition. The 
sound effects in the game are 
not much better either. Plinks 
and pings are the best 
description, though a needle 
falling on to a baking tray 
produces a similar result. 1 
wonder if it was sampled? 

Your fairly small fighter moves 
lairly sluggishly about the screen 
as the enemy fighters crawl 


towards you. 1 pity them because 
someone obviously forgot to put 
some ammunition in their guns. 
You are not fired on until the big 
boys arrive. The sprite detection 
here is no great shakes, either. 

If you shoot a particular 
enemy or collection of them a 
mysterious POW symbol 
appears. When you run into one 
of them an equally mysterious 
tran formation occurs to your 
aircraft. Sometimes you can just 
fire faster: at other times you 
find extra aircraft stuck on to 
your wingtips, providing extra 
firepower that way. It makes you 
a good target, though, and when 
the Flying Fortresses arrive they 
can scarcely miss you. 

What is wrong with 1942 is 
that the sprites are too small, the 
playing area is too small, the 
colours are poorly thought-out, 
the sound effects are probably 
the worst I have heard in any 
CPC game and, worst of all, it is 
boring to play. 

^ Miirli Ulyalt 


T he war is drawing to a 
close and you are on the 
losing side. It looks as if 
it is suicide mission time again; 
as a one-man fighter just might 
be able to penetrate the enemy 
defences and strike a telling 
blow for freedom and 
righteousness. 

This is not Star Wars, 
although with a plot like that it 
could be. This is World War II. 


and based roughly on the Battle 
of Midway. Very roughly, 1 would 
say. 

The objective is simple, which 
is why the Spectrum version sold 


well. It consists of flying your 
fighter aircraft over land, sea 
and islands, in 32 stages of 
frantic action against enemy 






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T he heavy trundle of big 
le^ue armour shook me 
to my boots; fear gnawed 
ceaselessly at my soul as the 
division drew closer still 1 could 
see the eyes of the leading driven 
see the smug look of satisfaction 
on the commander’s face as he 
raised his arm and the force 
spread out. Where were our 
tanks? They had left the depot 
completely unguarded. 1 
shouted to the radio operator to 
try them again - one last, 
desperate try, 

Behind a hill 500 yards away 
the Armanian tank commander 
watched the Sarapan tanks 
spread out in front of the depot. 
Regret was plainly visible on his 
face as he watched the enemy 
open fire and the depot HQ 
disappeared in a shattering 
series of explosions. Fire, debris 
and smoke mingled as the tanks 
rolled forward and the people in 
the depot started to die. 

He ran back to his own force 
- a smaller force - vaulted up 
to the scarred turret and 
signalled for the last desperate 
act of the war to begin. With the 
Sarapan forces epjoying the 
destruction of the helpless 
depot, he hoped to catch them 
unaware and make them pay for 
the lives they were taking so 
casually. 

Anyone who has an 
appreciation of board games, 
wargaming, computer strategy 
games or ^at warfare films like 
the BatUe of the Bulge should 
enjoy this lightweight combined 
computerfboard wargame from 
CDS. 

CDS also produced a previous 
uneasy marriage of formats in 
Brian Clough’s Foothail 
Fortunes.. Having seen the 


enemy headquarters or destroy 
all their forces. Everyone in the 
game need not be your enemy; 
alliances are possible and with 
the sharing of rebuilding and 
repair depots is possible: 

Initially all pieces need to be 
depltq.'ed on the board in such 
a position that the other 
commanders cannot see the 
markings on their backs, as that 
is where their firepower strength 
is indicated. 

Then it is movement time, 
with the computer issuing the 
number of movement points 
which depend on weather, 



A computerised umpire who deals the 
deathly blows with sound and graphics. 



morale and a random factor for 
laughs. 

Spotted an enemy unit’ Good, 
then blast away. Each unit may 
fire only once and an enemy unit 
may not be subjected to fire from 
more than one unit. This 
seemed a little ardficia] and it is- 
Check the advanced rules 
section for elaboration on the 
basics and multiple firing. 

There is some measure of data 
entry into the computer at that 
point but it does not take very 
long once you are familiar with 
the process and then you can 
watch the animated computer 
display of the conflict. 

At the start of each day the 
newspaper. War News, is 
distributed free to all generals. It 
^ves battle activities, strengths 
of the combatants, politick news 
which affects morale and the 
weather forecast. Pay close 
attentional to all this as it gives 
some clue to the day’s 
movement point allowance and 
other battlefield information. As 
with all newspapers, though, 
there can he propaganda and 
bias, so take some things with a 
pinch of salt. 

'Ihnk Attack certainly works 
much better than the previous 
CDS offering and is an 
interesting marriage of two 
dissimilar formats. The 
computer presentation is first- 
class, with colourful graphics 
and animated sequences and 
combines well with the generally 
high-quality board game 
elements. 

The game is not particularly 
difficult to play, yet offers all 
afficianados of the Battle of the 
Bulge a chance to take control 
of a tank corps, without all that 

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cheap production standards in 
that package 1 was pleasantly 
surprised to see that this time 
you get a heavy laminated 
folding card board, 48 plastic 
playing pieces and a 
comprehensive rule book. 

75nk Attack is a board game 
with computer moderation of 
conflict situations, for two to 
four players. It is a pity there is 
not a one-player version. 

Thking the role of General of 
a tank corps, consisting of eight 
tanks and four armoured cars, 
the objective is to capture the 





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rhe greatest challenge in the galaxy, an 
Earth size pinball machine. 


zones went cras^' and the big 


F mm across the universe 
they came. Ancient Earth 
melodies shattered the 
calm as the fleet came even 
closer. The leader reached for 
tlie intergalactic communication 
device and screamed at the top 
of his lungs, m a Pinball 
Wizard and I've come to play 
Time Scanner." 

"The Who have a lot to 
answer for" mumbled a man on 
the street comer as the time 


silver ball started its epic journey 
across the biggest pinball table 
in the universe, the Earth, The 
journey begins near the site of 
an extinct volcano. This 
Hawaiian nightmare must be 
brought to life by lighting the 
letters which spell the word 
before you can move to the 
second of the four levels. 

Like the other levels, the 
playing area is split into two 


halves. You start on the top hatf, 
which is a table in its own right. 
Depending on the level, the top 
or bottom half of the table is 
used for collecting a few bonus 
points and the other for 
completing the task which will 
take you to the next level. 

On level one the top half is 
used for bonus points. There are 
two ways for the ball to work its 
way to the lower level. One is 
through the ever-present gap 
between the centre flippers and 
the other down one of the two 
side shoots which are initially 
protected by knock-down 
shields, 

\^’hen the ball passes from the 
domain of the top section to that 
of the lower there is a slight 
pause as the program page flips 
between the two halves and the 

ball which was at the bottom of 
the top screen now appears at 
the top of the bottom screen. It 
is possible, by accurate shooting, 
to get the ball back on to the lop 
level but when playing the 
volcano scene this is not 
necessary, as your task is in the 
lower section, lb light the letters 
of the word "volcano” you must 
fire your ball up a central tube 
whose entrance is protected by 
knock-down tabs. Your five balls 
with which to complete this task 
can be lost, either through the 
flippers or down the two narrow 
tracks at the side of the screen. 
If you are fast enough you can 
use the three tilt directions - 
left, right and up - to deflect the 
ball from those hazardous areas. 

Lighting the word results in a 
volcanic erupfon, a dramatic 
darkening of the screen and the 
nulti-ball option coming into 
play. Three balls blast round the 
screen for as long as you can 
keep them there, collecting 
those precious points. Three 
balls are slower than one but not 
so slow that you can relax your 
guard. 

The time waves ripple and you 
find yourself in the ruins of a 
once great city. On this level the 
task is simple; all you have to do 
is drop three balls into a hole at 
the top of the upper screen. If it 
is as simple as it sounds, why did 
it take me so long to complete 
the level? It certainly was not my 



total lack of aim with the flippers 
or the fact that the ball insisted 
on falling through to the lower 
screen. On the lower screen 
there is a circular ramp which 
can be traversed by the ball for 


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mega bonus points. Each ball 
deposited into the hole re¬ 
appear.'; in a box on the lower 
level. Once again, completing 
the level results in the manic 
three-ball session. 


Ancient Egypt is the next port 
of call as you pay a visit to the 
pyramids. This level is a little 
trickier than the last as you have 
to light the letter spelling the 
word ‘pyramid’ and deposit 



three balls in the side pocket As 
the balls are deposited a 
pyramid builds and at the final 
part of this level a mummified 
face breaks out from behind the 
wall. 



The last level is called Final. 
To complete it arid win the game 
you must indulge in a little brick 
blasting. At the top of the screen 
the letters spelling the word 
fined’ appear one at a time at the 


top of the screen. Using your 
trusty silver ball you must bla.st 
away at the blocks which make 
up the letters. Be warned - this 
is no easy task and may well 
bring you back down to Earth 
with a bump. 

It is surprising that the 
Amstrad plays better than the 
Amiga version. The feel of the 
table is there and as the sonics 
assault your ears and your 
eyeballs rattle in your head, 
remember that deaf, dumb and 
blind kid plays a mean pinball. 

Adrian f umphrey 





Time Scanner 

Activision 


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M ost days 1 fed content. 
[ work in the food vat 
department, jou see. It 
is not that great; [ get by but 
recently 1 have had the feeling 
that someone or something was 
out to get me Friends are 
whispering behind my back, my 
work hours are changed all the 
time, my lunch lime was reduced 
from eight minutes to five and 
the security guards alt eye me 
suspiciously. I do not know why 
- 1 have done nothing wrong, I 
just like to look at trees. What is 
wrong with that? All this 
suspicion is getting to me; you 
could say I am becoming 
paranoid. 

The Paranoia Complex seems 
like a computerised and poorer 
version of the role-playing game 
Paranoia, produced by West 




Happy? Content? No grey clouds 
looming over the horizon? If so, this 
game is not for you* Or is it? 


End tJames. The game takes 
place in a sealed city 
underground, in the alpha 
sector ” Paranoia called the cily 
the Alpha Complex - in the 
not-too-distant future. Society is 
run by an all-powerful computer 
and social success is measured 
by security clearance, ran^ng 
from red to blue. 

Your aim is to serve the 
computer which, of course, is 
deranged by eliminating traitors 
~ real, suspected or just the 
gullible who you can frame. As 
you eliminate the traitorous 
scum you can rise in security 
level and ultimately be big 
enough to determine how to 


escape from the complex 
completely. 

The display is Caonf/et-esque, 
top-down, reduced screen, 
lumpy scrolling. On entering 
individual buildings the top is 
removed so that you can see in. 

Equipment and food are two 
essentials in the game, so you 
will need to hunt traitors, serve 
the computer and earn plenty of 
credits. Scattered round the 
complex are computer terminab 
where you can buy foodcards 
and extra goodies like bots. 
Having a bot trog round after 
you with all your heavy kit is 
recommended. 

Programming the foodcards is 


fun because you have to hold 
down 10 keys simultaneously, 
otherwise the programming 
goes wrong and you eat the 
equivalent of a very hot curry. 
Working out what to do to who, 
how to do it and with what to do 
it is where the enjoyment comes 
from this game, so do not play it 
as a maze game with shooting. 


or you will be disappointed. 

The graphics are nothing 
special, neither are the sonics, 
but the gameplay is well- 
balanced and when you get into 
it Paranoia Complex has much 
more depth the most action- 
orientated games. 


Mark Ulyatt 


HD 

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T he guy who owns the 
skate shop is a bit of a 
grouch but that is 
no dilhcuJty. The real problem is 
his son Lester The obnoxious 
little brat is begging for a good 
thrashing, so you decide to play 
him at his own game “ the 
skateboard. It is a pity Lester is 
so much better than you. 

In the skate shop you can log 
in for the competition or view 
the current high scores. You can 
leave the shop either to practise 
the events individually or go for 
broke and challenge Lester to 


white. The most unusual feature 
of the game is its complete lack 
of sound - an unusual move but 
it gives the program that extra 
touch of speed and playability. 

There are two ramp events 


which take place In an elongated 
half-pipe. One requires brute 
force as you waggle your joystick 
to gain a few feet in the high 
jump event. On the freestyle 
ramp you have 10 passes to 



Pit your skills against spoilt brat Lester, 
the boy begging for a good thrashing. 
But beware. Do not let your anger get 
the better of you on these testing 
tracks. Otherwise Lester will have the 
last laugh. 



an all-out, four-wheeled war. 
Once outside the shop in 
practice mode you see a small 
street plan, each street 
branching to a different event 
The events range from the self 
expression of the freestyle ramp 
to the humbling experience of 
the pool joust. Most of Ihe 
events take place on a static 
background and are very well- 
drawn but two of the events 
scroll and, to speed things a 
little, the colour has been kept 
to a minimum - black and 


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9 The oimndous Hide bra: is begjinf for a good thrashing,»you decide to play him 
at his own same, the duteboinJ. * 


perfonn the most outlandish 
tricks before the unbelieving 
eyes of the judges. The tricks 
you perform depend on the 
angle of the joystick on take-off 
and the number of times you 
pumped the board while 
travelling the ramp. 

You can start with the simple 
tricks, staying on your hoard and 
travelling a few feet into the air 
and, when you gain a little 
confidence, you can go for the 
rotates and handstands. 
Although you gain more points 
for the trickier manoeuvres you 
have a greater chance of 
bouncing your skater on his 
head a few times as he travels 
back down the ramp the difficult 
way. 

The joust is an event in a class 
of ils own and brings to mind the 
legendary times when knights 
foi^t on the fields of honour. 
Ibking your boffrng stick you 
attempt to unboard your rival as 
you pass each other in the pool. 
It is possible to delay for a short 
time at the rim of the pool or 
even slide your board alor^ the 
top of the pool either to cJign 



yourself for the attack or avoid 
the oncoming attack. After five 
passes the boffing stick is passed 
to the other player and the first 
person with three knockdowns 
wins the joust. 

The final tvra events, downhill 
jam and race, both feature 
scrolling action. In the race you 
must traverse the building site, 
leaping over the barricades and 
hurtling down the pipe; avoid 
the obstacles at all costs as you 
cannot afford the time to pick 
yourself from the floor. In the 
jam you race against Lester 
through the back streets, 
creating a little mayhem as you 
go. Kicking over the trash cans 
can be fun but kicking Lester is 
even better. Skating into walls is 
not such a good idea but if you 
do nothing else, avoid the wire 
fence Passing through this 
obstacle has a similar effect to an 
egg sHcer. Each event is well put 
together and the desire to thrash 
Lester wUl have you returning 
for more, time and time again. 

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I t is a man's world in today's 
Navy. So you can imagine my 
reaction when 1 saw the 
cover to Navy Moves. It portrays 
a macho nautical type i n rubber 
clutching a weapon in both 
hands. The scenario is 
straightforward. You play a 
muscular Navy commando 
whose mission is to locate and 
destroy a nuclear submarine 
which is harboured in an enemy 
base. 

The first part of the game 
consists of three zones which 
have to be negotiated 
successfully before moving to 
part two. Zone one has your 
commando driving a motorboat 
through minc'infested waters. 
Timing is crucial as you jump 
over mines and shoot kamikaze 
commandos bearing down on 
you with their aqua-bikes - a 
very frustrating stage. 

Progressing to zone two and 
your commando has slipped into 
wetwear to find the undersea 
entrance to the enemy base. 
Watch for the sharks - 1 found 
a sharp blow with a handbag to 
the snout deterred them - and 
enemy scuba divers which guard 
the entrance. Once past them 
you have to capture a 
bathyscaphe, a miniature 
submarine with which you move 
into zone three. Things start to 
get very exciting now. Cruising in 
your bathyscaphe you are 
inspected closely by giant octopi 
and eventually come fk:e to face 
with a giant, long thick sea 
monster, which can be killed by 
shooting it repeatedly in the 
mouth. 

Part two of Navy Moves has 
your man emerging from the 
bathyscaphe inside your nuclear 
submarine. The objective is to 
make a deep penetration of the 




submarine and place a bomb at 
the base of its nuclear reactor, 
stop the submarine, make it 
emerge from the sea and then 
transmit a message from your 
base. Unfortunately, access to 
the main computer is needed for 
all the actions, plus the correct 
code words to activate each 
action in turn. 



Codes can be gathered by 
killing and searching; the First 
Official will give you the code 
needed to stop the submarine 
and make it emerge. The First 


and Second Machine Officials 
hold the codes to open the base 
of the reactor door and the First 
and Second Transmission 
Officials hold the code to allow 
you to transmit a message to 
your base. 

Kill the Captain and you can 
have access to all the codes. The 
submarine is swarming with 
enemy marines armed with guns 
and flamethrowers, while you 
have only limited ammunition - 
although more can be gained by 
searching marines you have 
killed - so do not shoot loo 
soon; rather avoid the enemy by 
lying prone on the deck, when 


they will ignore you. 

Navigating the submarine is 
tricky and the cutaway map 
provided will help enormously, 
as will the pause button. The 
game ends when your 
commando has completed all 
the tasks successfully and 
transmitted a message to his 
base; then you make your way to 
the top of the control tower to be 
rescued by your chums. 

Navy Moves is a good follow¬ 
up \DAnny Moves. The graphics 
are of a very high quality; 
especially during the submarine 
sequences - much better than 
1 would have expected from an 
Amstrad machine - and there 
were enough levels to satisfy 
even me. An added bonus was 
the inclusion of numerous 
illustrations and annotated 
diagrams of the equipment and 
the submarine. 

Adrian wsii-Hayes 



RODND'yp 


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C ontrairy to what you 
might think. Bomb Jack 
// IS not a rare groove 
house mix but rather the sequel 
to one of the more memorable 
platform games of the early 
1980s, 

Elite Systems has decided to 
unleash the sequel on the 
unsuspecting public once mo re^ 
thanks to its budget label, 
Encore, so you may even have 
this game in your collection 
already. If you cannot remember 
1 would advise you not to buy it 
again just because it is cheaper 
- it has not improved. 

The premise of Bomb Jack H 
is simple. Leap from platform to 
platform, stabbing enemies, 
collecting all the treasures, Sbll, 
if BJ2 was a good action game. 


If you dilly-dally the monsters 
will mutate to a new form, 
sometimes a form more 
am enable to stabbing as well, so 
do not be afraid to wait if you 
cannot see a way out. One 
generation of uglies even leaps 
round the screen, which makes 
life more perilous in the short 
term, but easier in that all of 
them can be avoided. 

There are bonus points for 

Explosive action as snnall man Is eaten alive by Lizard. getting the treasures in the 




with plenty of excitement, 
snappy sonics and gripping 
graphics that would not matter; 
you could justifiably say that it 
was satisfactory. 


Alas, is it not a good action 
game; the sonics are squeaks, 
the graphics just coloured blobs 



and you could justifiably say only 
that it was as interesting as a 
puddle. 


The puddle simulator starts in 
the great outdoors; note that the 
backdrops are completely 
irrelevant and serve only to 
distract the eye from following 
what passes for action. You can 
leap sideways to a platform on 
your level, straight up to a 
platform directly above, or you 
can run round on the platform 
you are on. The tricky part is 
when you have to leap up to a 
platform occupied by a monster 
before you can reach the 
platform where the last treasure 
awaits. 

It is tricky because the 
monsters are dilicult to deal with 


in a random kind of way. Catch 
one from behind, stab, stab, and 
it is history. Alternatively, end up 
in front and you are pushed 
along, your energy level 
declining faster than the NHS, 
Once depleted, there is no 
hospital bed -- Just a life lost and 
wasted. What is really tricky is 
that some of the platforms which 
contain a monster and have to 
be traversed are very small, 
making it very dificult to get in 
a dean stab and finish the job 
early. 



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correct order but 1 did not really 
care The graphics might be 
multi-coloured but they are 
multi-coloured blobs. There is 
little definition and they 
occasionally dash with the 
background, becoming difficult 
to see. 

Bomb Jack 11 may have been 
a good idea in its day but that 
day has long since gone and this 
is one history lesson not worth 
paying to sit through. 

Mark uintt 




MmstnS User imtt 1989 


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of the screen. If caught they will 
change your bat into something 


They say the old games are the best, 
but what of a new game that plays like 
an old game? 


H ow many times have you 
picked up a new game, 
only to find that it is not 
new but incredibly old and a 
clone at that? My guess is that is 
has happened to you often, as 
many games released today, 
especially budget games, are 
either clones or re-released 
games of yesteryear. 

Breakout began in the mists of 
time - the late 1970s anyway. 
After some time the arcade 
operators noticed that there was 


less and less interest being 
shown in the machines and they 
were taken out of service. 

Breakout was forgotten about 
for many moons and then Thito 
resurrected it and re-launched it 
as Arkanoid. Since Arkanoid 
first appeared on a home 
computer we have been 
bombarded with similar clones 
of this ancient concept - 
bounce a ball round a court 
while knocking out coloured 
bricks, 

The concept is simple and the 
game challenging and enjoyable;, 
yet one can have just so much of 
a good thing. There must be 50 
Breakout-type games available 
across the broad range of h ome 
computers, so will another one 
tip the balance? 

I doubt it but it is worth 
thinking about. 1 have had 
enough of Breakout and 
Arkanoid and any other relatives 
to last me a lifetime 

It should be noted that any 
Breakout game should be played 
using either a paddle, mou.se or 
any controller which is speed- 
sensitive, A joystick or keyboard 
will always give the same speed 
to the bat and so makes the 
game incredibly difficult 


Batty is the latest budget 
release from Encore, It is 
basically an Arkanoid clone with 
very few subtle differences. The 
main and most noticeable 
difference is a small space 
invader at the top of the screen 
firing lasers at you. They must 
be avoided, Other than that the 


game is virtually identjcal. The 
only differences are subtle to 
avoid infringement of copyright. 
As usual, many blocks are 
tourer than others and require 
to be hit a number of times 
before they disintegrate. Some 
blocks release special pods 
which drop towards the bottom 


special. 

As you might expect 1 am not 
exactly raving about this game 
It is a copy of a copy of a copy 
There is little which is new and 
it includes all the features from 
previous games. 

I am not saying that the game 
is bad. In fact it is reasonably 
good but it is becoming 
incredibly boring to keep seeing 
these kind of games. Does 
nobody have any new and 
ori^nal ideas? 

Graphically, Batty is very 
colourful. The sound effects are 
reasonable but the gameplay is 
somewhat lacking because of 
the uncontrolability of the bat 
speed. If it w^re possible to play 
it with a mouse or paddle it 
would enter a whole new area of 
youngister fun. 




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Pedals, mountains & sunshine 
but no CPC! 

Peter Brunning's idea of a Holiday 
can be too much like hard work. 


/ laid in the sha<^ just inside the Austrian border, map spread out trying 
to decide if I was fit enough to cycle across the Alps by the highest pass 
which rises up to over BOOO feet I was carrying a small tent which did 
allow me to stop anywhere if I ran out of energy. As it turned out I was 
right to wonder as it was really just beyond my capabilities, i have never 
wodied so hard as the day I went over the Timmeljock pass and never felt 
so exhilarated as the experience of comirjg down the other side. It rained 
on the way up but I came over the fop info brilliant sun shinst looking 
across the tops of many fantastic snow covered mountains, I stayed one 
night in Italy in a German speaking Gasthoff and then over an insignificant 
pass (in comparison) back into Austria, I came home by trains from just 
inside (jermany, feeling the world was at my feet and with a promise that 
this was the start of many new iraveliing adventures. 

It had been my ambition for 


countless years to cycle the 
Romantic Route which goes from 
Wurzburg in Germany to Austria, and 
then to continue over the Alps info 
Italy. Last year, for the first time, i 
feii fit enough and had the right 
gears on my cycle. 

The Romantic Route certainty 
lived up to its name. The top 
section undulates gently and 
provides stimulation periodically 
with a series of fascinating ancient 
waited towns. The middle is best 
forgotten exc^t tor the campsite 
at Lech, where the owner insisted 
that I used a caravan as it was 
about to rain. Fifty miles on, the 
Alps were just discernab/e as a 
misty outline and gradoafty unfolded 
over a period of two days, into the 
majestic, snow covered scenery 
that dominates Austria, 

That memory ot only a year ago 
seems so distant now. I look into the 
office after a weekend off and 
wonder if I really want to wind up to 
that acute menial state needed to 
solve the next software problem. 
Then the phone rings or the post 
arrives and an excited letter or a 
praising telephone call provide the 
boost to mach 3 and the week takes 


Brunning Software 

34 HelBton Road, Chelmsford, 

Essex, CMI 5JF. Tei 0245 2S2g54 


off. Writing software can be hard but 
there is no doubt that CPC users are 
very responsive to just a little above 
the ordinary. 

The astute reader may have 
noticed a holiday spirit and an unusual 
light hearted patter to this 
advertisement. What is this aU about? 
Quite simple, it's holiday timet 

I was In the bath, taking a relaxed 
view of the heavy burden that 
programmers carry and reflecting on 
the problems of the world. Honesty is 
Important to me, possibly almost to 
excess and yet It is so difficult to be 
completely honest. But imagine a 
world where everyone was totally 
dishonest. Where no one could be 
trusted. The world as we know it 
could not exist. This is light hearted 
so I won’t labour where it relates. 

It struck me as i lay in the 
closeted warmth of the bath, that 
there Is a light hearted angle, which 
would suit the 'holiday period'. Ahhal 
I hear from the pages, as it dawns on 
the reader that this is a little more 
serious than the writer is letting on. 

I canrtot hold back any longer, so 
here it Is. July is to be the 'holiday 
period*, where, a response from 
Brunning Software may be slow. But 


hunger can still strike as it does not 
recognise such a distinction and you 
must still send in your ordersi So 
here's a little carrot just for the 
month of July, 

Send your order by post with a 
cheque or postal order and deduct 
£4.00 from our usual price, as listed 
below. You MUST also include a short 
letter which explains a reason why 
you deserve this discount and this 
MUST be an honest reason. Be kind 
and try not to be too serious. We will 
chose one letter that may be the 
most original or the funniest and 
Include an extract in our 
advertisement. The writer of that 
letter will receive a full refund and a 
complimentary copy of SrunWord 
Elite. 

The response to our Tasword 
upgrade, introduced last month, has 
been good. For the month of July we 
will extend this to include Pretext 
and Mini Office II, as part of the 
honesty theme. For the month of July 
if you already own Tasword (disc). 
Pretext (disc or ROM) or Mini 
Office II (disc), you can deduct £7.00 
from any price listed below. Don't 
send the programme, just look into 
your conscience and remember that 
you rely on honesty just as we do. It 
you are a legitimate owner tell us and 
deduct your discount. You MUST also 
tell us why you deserve this 
discount, as explained above. 

That's enough soft talk, it's time 
for a few serious comments. Our new 
booklet should be reedy when this 
advertisement appears but won't be 
posted out until early August. 
Everyone on our list will eventually 
receive a copy and an attractive 
update offer. BrunWord Elite is also 
behind schedule and will not now be 
released until late summer. Let me 
leave you with a final thought. 
SrunWord Elite printed this entire 
page, heading, text, large box round 
the edge, all the lines and the 
invisible teddy. This was one printing 
operation, at the actual size that you 
see. (Standard CPC6126, 8 bit printer 
port and HGIP45 printer). 

For a serious overview of our 
programmes, please see our 
advertisement in last months ACU. 


BrunWord 6i2S with BrunSpell & DataFIle.£30*00 

BrunWord 464 with BrunSpeU & DataFIle.£25‘00 

BrunWord Junior.Not in special offer 

Info-Script 6128 with BrunWord & BrunSpell. . . . £50*00 
BrunWord Elite (available late summer). ...... £90*00 

BrunWord Elite and Info-Script Include backup disc. 
(All supplied on 31n disc - state which computer) 


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What makes more 

money, a film or 

the games and 
accessories which 

follow? Richard 

Henderson looks 

into the lucrative 

world of big film 
spin-offs. 



THErmSTWASFORHIMSE 
THE SECOND WAS F0RHISC01 
THIS TIME IS FOR HIS FRIEl 


B y the time this magazine 
reaches the streets, the 
population of Britain will be in 
the final stretch of waiting for what 
most believe to be the biggest film 
since Ben Hur. On August 11 the 
bated breath will finaJly be expelled 
when Satman - The Movj'e arrives. 
Costing £25 million, it promises to be 
the most expensive super-hero 
venture yet undertaken. The set 
constructed at Pinewood studios, 
reported to be the largest outdoor 
set since Oeqpatra cost £3 million to 
build and Jack Nicholson, who stars 
as arch-villian The Joker, demanded 
£1 million for his services. 

Beyond the monetary stories, 
Batman has also been featured in 
many journals for its star-filied cast 
and the adamant behaviour of 
director Tim Burton, who even still 
refuses to allow Journalists to talk to 


actors or tour the set. The tabloids 
have certainly made the most of the 
press silence with one Sunday 
newspaper sending a photographer 
to capture 'exclusive' iz^ctur^ from 
skylights and windows tn spiderman 
fashion. 

In the ULS. children have been 
flocking to certain Warner Brothers 
films, most notably The Dead Root, 
for a 90-second preview of Michael 



Keaton and his rubber Batsuit, With 
all this marketing potential, there 
seems to be no other choice than to 
release a computer game based on 
the film. Ocean snapping up the 
rights as soon as the picture wss 
announced. 

Batman, of course, is not the only 
major motion picture to come our 


way in the next few months which 
is based on a comic, Watchmen, too, 
has been recognised for what an 
excellent story it contains. The 
director of Brazil, Jatiberwocky, 
Time Bandits and The Adventunes 
of Banon Munchausen has been 
handed the task to bring Alan 
Moore’s and Dave Gibbcjn's greatest 
strt> to the cinema screen. Naturally 
a computer game based on the 
exploits of the character is to be 
released at the same time. 

Another of the Ocean licence haul 
is Cl Eve Barker's Aftghtbreed. This 
latest film promises many emotions 
and exotic locations and the plot is 
not only horror-orientated, David 
Cronenberg, director of The Hy 
stars in the movie, and special 
effects abound. Even Gary Bracey 
of Ocean is to star as a monster in 
the film. 


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"Ir the US children 
have been flocking 
to certait I Warner 
Brother s films, 
roost notably the 

Dead Pool, for a 
90 second preview 

o f Michael Keaton 
and his rubber 

Batsuit!" 


Based on Barker's book Caba/, 
Nighitbreed tells a tale oif a rnurderer 
on the run who Is forced to take 
refuge in the subterranean setting 
of Midtan, a legendary city where all 
sins are supposedly forgotten: there 
he becomes one of the nightbreed, 
a band Of living-dead shape 
changers, 

James Bond makes another 
appearance this summer in Timothy 
Dalton's last film as 007, Licence to 
Kiii which, as chronicled in the July 
Issue, is to be released as a game by 
Domark, which is also responsible 
for the pixelisation Of A View to a 
Kiii, Live and Let Die and The Living 
DeyiightS. Though many rumours 
suggesting otherwise circulated 
freely, Dalton is to continue filming 
Bond movies way into the 1990s, 

Jaws, the Spielberg terror 
spectacular of the 1970s, is also due 


to be released on computa", more 
than 10 years after the release of 
the picture. The Hunning Man, the 
July cover game, has finally made an 
appearance and it is not the first, or 



last, Arnie film to suffer 
computerisation. The Predator had 
great success when released and 
soon to come is the Ocean Red Heat, 
featuring incredibly large Sprites and 
plenty of fighting action. 

Other films being worked on 
which are certain to be converted to 
the home computer Include 
Robocop 2, What is special about 
this picture, apart from being the 
sequel to Robocop is that the plot is 
being written by Frank Miller, the 
comic book gsiius whose credits 
include the much-acclaimed The 


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Dark Knight Returns and Eiektra 
Assassin. His entire time is spent 
scribbiirtg the next tin can adventure 
and we are bound to see a much 
larger budget forming than that 
used on the prequel. 

Aiisns a has aiso recently begun 
shooting, but unfortunately 
Cyberpunk fans may be 



disappointed as William Gibson - 
Neuromancer Count Zero, et al - 
has had his two preliminary scripts 
rejected and it looks as if the task 
has finally fallen on Eric Red to 
deliver the goods. If anybody is to 
grab the licence for the picture my 
money would be on Activision, 
which did a great job on the game of 
Aliens, 

Those who have their ears 
constantly to the Hollywood 
grapevine will know thskHighlander 
2 — Yellowknife is now filming, as is 
Ghostbusters 2. The Last 
Ghostbuster, Indiana Jones 3 - The 
Last Crusade is, of course, soon to 
be released, as is its home computer 
counterpart, and Michael J Fox has 
signed to do not one Back to the 
Future sequel but two in succession. 


**On the games 

front we have 
already seen many 

good film 
conversions 

including Star 
Wars, The Empire 

Strikes Back and 

Return of the Jedi, 
Others like the 
Rocky Horror 

Picture Show, 

Rambo II Gl 111 have 
all been great 

successes using 

the original ideas 

and gameplay/' 


which means we can harve more 
games based on the short actor's 
exploits, 

On the games front we have 
already seen many good film 
conversions. Including Star Wars, 
Empire Strikes Back and Return of 
the Jed/, admittedly all from arcade 
machitTes. Otlners iiko The Rocky 
Horror Picture Show, Rambo II & III, 
Ghostbusters and Aliens have all 
been great successes using original 
ideas and gamepiaiy. 

Many poor films have also 
appeared as games. Take Howard 
the Duck as an example - or 
Howard the Turkey as the critics 
loved to call it. Evil Dead was 
another, as was Friday the 
Thirteenth, 

All said, many film licensed games 
have been better than those 
converted from arcade machines 



and, with many good, big budget 
fijms attracting more viewers than 
ever before - and surely more of a 
percentage of computer owners 
than an arcade game - it will be 
only a short time before most films 
in the cinema will be followed by 
home computer versions. 


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Hairy 

Hacker 


F irst off the starting-biock is 
Richard Graham of 
Aitrirkcham, who has fOkjnd 
that typing the name "FREERIDE” 
into /kah W^mons makes you almost: 
invincible, In net urn, he would like to 
know how to get past the door near 
the transporter in the 'escape 
tunnel' in Monty on the Run. 

The next letter has a one-liner 
poke for Ghosts & Goblins: 10 
MEMORY &2000;load“tp”:poke 
%509c,0:poKe G(5096,&c6:poke 

&S28,0:call &5000, Vife might as well 
include it as Jan Cardon from 
Belgium went to plenty of trouble to 
get it to me. 

There was a fourth communi¬ 
cation this month. A map of 
Activator Thanks to Reter Mardle 
and Neil Timpeiy for sending it. 

So you want to hack"? Vbu are 
trying to back-up a game, or crack it 
to find infinite lives, and It loads a file 
ail in one great block. Games do this 
to protect against copying without 
writing novel loaders like speedlock. 

Where a normal, sane, binary file 
has a name, size and other useful 


information on the front of rt, these 
"headerless fifes" do not. Not only 
that, they sometimes use strange 
synchronisation bytes, I think that is 
out of order and will reveal a secret 
of hackery to you. 

If you have some kind of 
debugger/monitor program yOu 
stick a breakpoint in CAS_READ 


and peek at the registers. A glance 
at the firmware nrnanuai will soon teii 
you what those registers mean and 
it is only a short trip from there to 
saving the code. If you do not have 
a debugger this sprinkling of 
machine code will help you: 

10 ‘VM'i Headefless file loader 
20 ' 

30 flEnORV 49EFF|DPEN00T"!D*:KErtD1l¥ 
liSOOOi CLOSEOUT; li=200 
40 FQR i=S9F00 TO iAOE? 

50 READ 


60 ck=ckta;lF (i AND 7307 THEN 100 
70 t=t+tk:ft£fiD al:a-VflL(T+a$) 

80 IF a=il[ THEH clt=0:li=li+lO|fiOTO 
100 

W PRlHT"eRror in line ^liiENO 
100 NEXT 

no IF 1051260 THEN PRINT'Vou lissed 
a line*;EN0 

120 m save 'yax:ode',b,&8f00,485 
vi 11 

130 REN save the code, 

140 CALL 49F00 

ISO PRINT'fteady to goHCHRKlSl; 

200 DATA 3A,Al,8C,32,F4,9F,2A,fl2.0 
210 DATA eC,22,F5,9F,3E,C3,32,Al,44G 
220 DATA BC,21je,9F,22,fl2,BC,C9.3DD 
230 DATA 22,22,AO,EB,22,24,AO,32,2E7 
240 DATA 26,A0,CD.FF,ee,CD,4E,BB,523 
250 DATA 21,27,A0,C(},f7,9F,2A,22,397 
2t0 DATA AO,CD,00.AO,21,34,AO,CD,3CF 
270 DATA F7,9F,2A,24,A0,CD,OO,A0,3Fl 
280 DATA 21,43,AO,CO,F7,9F,3A,26,3C7 
290 DATA AO,CD,OS,AO,21,62,AO,CD,3F2 
300 DATA F7,3F,CD,13,BE,FE,20,CA,61E 
310 DATA EA,9F,F6,20,FE,77,28,24,450 
320 DATA FE,65,20,E£,CB,EA,9F,FS,SBC 


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330 OflTfi 2I,C4,9F,2Z,31,00.3E,C3,208 
340 DATA 32,30, 00, 2fl,22,flO,£0,46,286 
350 OATS 24,AO,36,F7.23,06,78,61,348 
360 DATA 20,F8,Ft,C9.CD,EA,5F,F5,6l0 
370 DATA 06,B,O6,O9,2l,DB,flO,n,376 
380 DATA 00,CO,CD,8C,eC,30,16,2A,345 
390 DATA 24,A0,£B,2fl,22,A0,01,OO,29C 
400 DATA 00,3£,02,CD,98,80,30,05,296 
410 DATA CD,8F,eC,38,OC,21,9E,AO,3E2 
420 DATA CD,F7,9f,C0,T8,8B,CD,FF,SCF 
430 DATA B8,3A,0e,A0,3C,32,DB,A0,459 
440 DATA EI,D1,F1,C9,ES,D5,CS,F5,6£0 
450 DATA CD,FF,86,CD,4E,66,21,63,531 
460 DATA AO,CO.r7,9F,06,04,£l,CD,4ee 
470 DATA OO,A0,3E,20,CO,SA,68.1O,2FO 
480 DATA FS,El,28,CD, 00, AO,CD,18,453 
490 DATA BB,C7,2A,24,A0,E6,2A,22,3A7 
500 DATA AO,3A,26,AO,C3,00,00,7£,2E1 
510 DATA e7,C8,C0,5A,eB,23,19,F7.493 
S20 DATA 7C.C0,06,A0,7D,F5,CB,3F,46A 
530 DATA CB,3F,CB,3F,CB,3F,CD,12,3FD 
540 DATA AO,F1,FS,E6,OF,FE,OA,38,4BB 
550 DATA 02,C6,07,C6,30,CD,5A,EB,3A7 
560 DATA Ft,C9,00,00,00,00,00,4C,206 
570 DATA 6F, 61 ,64,73,20,61,74,20,28c 
580 DATA 2E,2E,20,00,OD,OA,4C,6S,U4 
590 DATA 6E,67,74,68,20,2E,2E,2£,25B 
600 DATA 2£,20,OO,OD,0A,S3,79,6£,19F 
610 DATA 63,20,62,79,74,65,20,2£,235 
620 DATA 20,O0,0D,OA,OA,5O,72,65,l68 
630 DATA 73,73,20,73,70,61,63,65,312 
640 DATA 20,74,6F,20,63,6f,6E,74,2P7 
650 DATA 69,6£,75,65,2C,20,57,20,274 
660 DATA 74,6F,20,77,?2,63,74,65,32E 
670 DATA 2C,OD,OA,45,20,74,GF,20,1AB 
680 DATA 66,69,6£, 64, 20,65,66,74,306 
690 DATA 72,79,20,70, 6F, 69,6E,74,335 
700 DATA 2E,0D,0A,0A,O0,0O,OA,45,l3A6 
710 DATA 72,72,GF,72,20,77,63,69,320 
720 DATA 6C, 65,20,77,72,69,74,69,320 
730 DATA tE,67,20,64,61,74,61,07,296 
740 DATA 00,OA,00,43,4F,44,45,20,162 
760 DATA 45,4E,64,45,52,45,44,OA,211 
760 DATA 00,20,41,46,20,20,20,42,166 
770 DATA 43,20,20,20,44,45,20,20,16C 
780 DATA 20,48,4C,20,20,20,SO,43,1A7 
790 DATA OD,OA,DO,41,43,47,44,45,173 
800 DATA 2E, 42,49,4£, 00,00,00,00, 107 


Type that in. save it and run it, 
Errors in the typing will be revealed 
to you as it loads. Vbu can then save 
the code, as in line 120, or use it tha^e 
and then. 

The progrette resides in the 

CAS_READ vector and tells you all 

the relevant information. Then ytxj 
can hit space to continue as usual, 
press "w" to write it out as a normal 



file, or 'e' to find the entry address, 
though the program will rtot run 
afterwards. 

All addresses, sync bytes and so 
on are displayed in hexadecimal, 
partly because this is the way most 
hackers think of such things but 
mostly because it is much easier to 
write hexadeciiTtal print routines. 

Here is the source code. Feel free 
to modify it and steal parts of it for 
nefarious purposes: 


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When the program you are cracking 
- sorry, backing-up - tries to run 
this, it calls the subroutine stored at 
30H instantly. This is where my piece 
of code lives and that obligtngJy tells 
you what the victim program is 
using for an entry point. 

Remember that doing a RUN" of 
a binary program causes all memory 
to be erased . So any binary code has 
to be loaded and then CALLed, or it 
will not do much good. Loading 
addresses can be found by de- 
protecting the loader - usually in 
Basic if th^e is one - or from Matt 
Cawley’s "Excat" program, Utopia 
or similar 


“Them pokeys 

ought to keep 
most of you busy 

for a month or so, 

by which time 1 will 

probably have 
another bucket 

load of goodies" 


A welcome name just sprang into 
sighit St the foot of the last letter - 
John "Hackman Qirvin". He is in 
difficulty with his faithful tape deck 
going into reverse. This hack is for 
WEC Le Msins, and gives you three 
things you do not normally have - 
infinite timei no other competitors to 
force you off the road and 
invulnerability to hitting such things 
as lampi3osts, signs and tree-shaped 
objects. Also your speed does not 
go down when you drive offf the 
road. 

Here is the poke; you run it. put rt 
in the re-wound tape - or fost 
forwarded if your tape deck is doing 
John Girvin impressions- 

Thank you for that pokette. and 
good luck with the hacking of 
Afterburner, 

Them pokeys ought to keep most 
of you busy for a month or so, by 
which time I will probably have 
another bucket-load of goodies 
waiting for you. Now it is time to try 
for a snappy ending but only rubber 
bands have snappy endings, so have 
this one. If at first you don't succeed, 
try again at greater speed. 


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bulletin boards 
increases so do the 
phone bills. One 

way round this 

costly problem is 

the age old 

technique of 

packet radio. 



I f you are an awkJ communications 
user you wiH know how 
expensive your hobby can be, 
Fbr many, the thrill of being able to 
log on to a bulletin board leads only 
to debt with the telephone 
company. 

Those in debt ane disconnected 
for not being able to pay the 
extortlonateiy high cost of owning 
and using a telephone. For those 
who face an expensive or have 
already had a high telephone bill, 
listen - there is an alternative at 
hand. 

Rather than lining the pockets of 
British Telecom shareholders, losers 
can turn to another method of 
computer communication. Radio 
hams might have already guessed 
the alternative. Packet Radio could 


change computer communication 
significantly. 

Packet Fladio is not a new 
concept. The Americans have been 
using radio to transmit and receive 
computer data for about tO years. In 
the U.K. Packet has only recently 
gained ground as a widely-used 
medium for data transmission but 
already there are thousands of radio 
hams talking to each other in binary 
form, 

Even though Packet Radio is a 
completely different medium from 
telephone transmissions, the way 
both are used is similar and many 
comms users will feel at home with 
it. Radio is normally used for one-to- 
one communication between two 
radio hams. Packet Radio is no 
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hundreds of bulletin boards and 
they operate in the same Kind of 
way as those available over the 
telephone lines. 

Using a bulletin board can be 
rewarding, as you can do many 
things with them. One of the main 
purposes for which they are used is 



to send electronic mail to pen friends 
and to up'load and down-ioad files. 
Many cjf the files available consist of 
utilities and demonstrations, most of 
which are of premium quality and 
are in the public domain. 

To use F^ket Radio, first, and 
most important, you need to be an 
amateur radio operator. This legally 
requires an operator’s licence which 


will cost £12. Before you can get 
your licence you need to pass an 
examination based on your 
knowledge of radio. 

The examination is set by the City 
& Guilds Board and there are two a 
year. You have already missed the 
May examination and the next one 
is due for December. The paper is in 
two parts, both of which must be 
completed. 

To team for the examination you 
can choose any method you like. The 
easiest but not necessarily the 
cheapest would be to attend a 
course on the subject, Scwrie adult 
institutes and education authorities 
run such courses and you should 
contact your local authority to find 
if there are any courses in your area. 
S have included some names and 


**Using a bulletin 

board can be 
rewarding as you 

can do many 

things with them." 


addresses of establishments which 
have held such courses. Courses 
usually begin in September and 
prepare the candidate for the 
following May examination. Further, 
most courses are held as evening 
classes. 

With certificatfi in hand you can 
buy your licence. With that you will 
be assigned a call sign, a number of 
digits and letters which are tagged 
on to the beginning of all 
transmissions which are addressed 
to you. Ybur radio will receive them 
and pass on only those which are for 
you. Likewise, the sender’s call sign 
will also be tagged to the message 
so that the recipient will know its 
origin. 

Like data telecommunication 
systems, you will require a modem 
to modulate the outgoing signal and 
to demodulate the incoming one. If 
you already own a modem for use 
over the telephone lines you are in 
for some bad news. Such a modem 
will be of no use to Packet Radio, 
Those modems produce data in long 
sequential streams, whereas Packet 
Radio requires data to be 
transmitted in packets, 

Vbur new modem should be in the 
form of a Terminal Node Controller, 
They package the data automaticai' 
Ey and are already set up for use 
with radio and incorporate the 
appropriate connectors at the rear 

Three typical TNC modems are 
sold by leading packet radio 
specialist Andrews Computer 
Services of Watford, They are the 
ABA PK88 modem, which allows 
use of both HF and VHP Packet 
Radio, and costs £129.95, If you are 
looking for something a little 
cheaper you might like to consider 
the Pac-Comm Tiny-2, It costs 
£109,95 and allows usage of VHF 
Packet only. If you have plenty of 
money and want the best you can 
turn to the all-singing, all-dancing 
AEA PK232which will cost £279.95. 


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All those modems are equipped 
with an RSi232 interface. Unfortun¬ 
ately. Amstrad CPC computers do 
not have one cxf them built-in and so 
you will need to buy one if you do 
not already own such a device. 

To use Packet Radio to its full 
potential you will require some 
specialised software. If you already 
have communications software you 
will be able to use it with Packet but 
you will be short of functions, file 
transfer especially. Dedicated 
Packet Radio software costs very 
little, as it is public domain. Once you 
have this you will have all the 
computing equipment you need to 
begin. 

All you need then is the radio 
equipment. Radios can cost a small 
fortune but if you are prepared to 
pay the cost of a new radio you 
might be saving yourself a good deal 
of trouble in the tong run, 

If you attend any radio rallies you 
should be able to pick up a suitable 
unit for about 50 pence but it will be 
a very basic unit and is likely to be 



just single-channel. Such a unit will 
need to be re-tuned and so, unless 
you are confident you could do it 
yourself, it will have to be done by a 
radio shop or obliging friend. 

A typical new radio might be the 
Yaesu FT211R which has some 
special features which aid Packet 
Radio users. This costs about £250 
and is fully-functional FM radio as 
well as being designed for Packet- 

Packet Radio operates on a 
number of frequencies. The most 
popular is 144.650MH^ VHR This 


“There are 

hundreds of 

bulletin boards in 

the UK. and 

finding them ail 

will be an 

education.'* 


channel is incredibly busy and is the 
rendezvous for many bulletin board 
systems and network nodes. 

A network node is a radio 
substation. Calls are put through a 
network node if they are travelling 
a long way. The node receives the 
transmission and passes it on to the 
next node. Ttie signal is passed on 
and on until it is close enough to the 
described recipient. It then sends the 
signal to the destination. 

Another busy channel is 
144.675MHz VHF Here many one-to- 
one conversations take place. The 
next busiest frequency Is 432,61MHz 
FM. Other channels include 70MHz 
VHF, 50MHz VHF and 1.296MHz 
VHF and 14.105MHz on HF. 

Finally, you will need an aerial. The 
better the aerial the better your 
signal will be and you will be less 
likely to get interference. If you have 
run out of money at thfe point you 
could make an antenna. Just throw 
off your best overcoat or wedding 
suit from that old wire coat hanger 
and adjust the hanger slightly with 
two pairs of strong pliers and you 


have a home-made aerial. Just 
attach some coaxial lead to it, place 
it In a prominent position close to a 
window and you can start. 

All that work has finally paid off 
and you are now a fuJly-flegged 
Packet Radio user you might like to 
join a local amateur radio club and 
begin to become more and more 
involved. Amateur radio is a very 
broad field. There are millions of 
users all over the world, many of 
whom are now tuning to Packet 
Radio. There are hundreds of bulletin 
boards in the U.K. and finding them 
all will be an education. The feet is 
that Packet Radio is going places - 
places where no computer comms 
user has gone before. 

Space, the final frontier? Well, 
possibly. At this moment there are 
hundreds pf radio waves bouncing 
off a satellite hundreds of miles 
above the earth - a special packet 
radio satellite. Sounds fun? Well, it is 
not too expensive to get into and 
there is no harm in trying. 



Contacts; 

City & Guilds Examination 
information. 

Section 12 

City & Guilds of Lendon Institute, 
46 Britannia Street. 

London WC1X 9RG. Tel: 01 278 246a 

Courses: 

International Correspondence 
Schools, 

312-314 High Street. 

Sutton. Surrey. SMI 1PR. 

Tel; 01-643 956a 

Radio & Telecomms Correspon¬ 
dence School. 

12 Moor View Drive. 

Teignmouth, Devon. 7TQ14 9UN. 

Tel; 06267 7939a 

The Rapid Results College, 

Tuition House, 27-37 St. George’s 
Road, London SW19 4DS. 

Tel: 01-947 7272. 

Specialist companies. 

Andrews Computer Services, 
Packet Radio suppliers, 

Tel; 0923 229222. 

Yaesu, 

Tel; 0713 25S 111. 


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Welcome 
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John's 

Summer 
Column 


in the form of packets of data eight 
bits wide. 

Remembering that a bit is an ON 
or OFF signal, you can imagine that 
eight separate wines are needed to 
carry information from one part of 
the computer to another To store ali 
that information a 16-bit address 
system is used. If you know binary 
arithmetic you will realise that 16 
bits will give 16.384 * 16384 

separate addresses and so the Z-SO 
can access 64K of memory directly, 
where IK equals 1,024 bytes and 
one byte equals eight bits. 

Experienced programmers will 
laugh at this point, since everybody 
knows about bits and bytes. They 
might, htowever, pause for a seccwnd 
when they realise that the 
CPC6128 manages 
to break a few of 
the rules they 
hold so dear. 
The Z-00 
was de 
-signed 
to be 
able 
To 
use 
64K 


T his month we look at the 
extra memory CPC6126 
owners have. Most of the 
time the memory is unused by the 
Basic and machine code 
programmer and it nests on the 
sidelines doing nothing. That is a pity 
because computer memory is 
expensive and potentially very 
useful. Although it is many times 
cheaper than it was 10 or so years 
agOi world shortages recently have 
pushed up its price again. The moral 
is if you have it, use it. 

Deep Inside your beloved grey 
plastic box is a tiny chip of silicon 
encased it a little pbastk; packet and 
called a Zllog Z-60 microprocessor. 
The Z’SO is now getting rather old, 
though they have been saying that 
for years, and is what ts referred to 
as an &bit micro¬ 
processor. The 
eight bits does not 
mean that inside it 
are eight pieces but 
that the infonma- 
tioo is moved round 
inside the computer 




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Summer is here at 
last, school is almost 

out and John 

Kennedy has slipped 

into something 

casual to examine 
the extra memory 

on CPC6128S. 

of memory and in a CPC6126 there 
is more than 170K of memory. 

Tlie CF^ range was designed to 
make use of a technigue called bank 
switching, by which the necessary 
portion of memory is switched on 
only when it is needed and so the 
64K maximum rule is never violated. 
The tTDK memory exists but the 
Z'0O b atiowed to look only at certain 
parts of it at a time. 

The design of the CF’C allows yet 
more memory to be provided by 
ROMs and EPROMs. They overlap 
the bottom and top of the possible 
memory map and contain the 
operating system, Basic and, if disc 


drives are present, the code needed 
to Lise them. Other programs such 
as word processors, assemblers and 
even other languages can-also be 
stored in ROM and switched in when 
needed. 

This sounds complicated but all 
this is completely transparent to the 
user, to whom it appears that the 
programs in ROM are like any other 
program, except that they take up 
no RAM and they load instantly, The 
switching of ROMs, EPROMs and 
RAMs is done from another of the 
chips in the CPC, called the gate 
array. 

The firmware routine situated at 
address 6iSD05 will allow us to 
choose which 16K RAM bank goes 
where - figure 1. This machine 
code does not exist on a 464 or 664, 
so even tf extra memory packs are 
pluged into those machines the 
CALL &BD05 routine will not work. 
Unless, of course, someone supplies 



you with the necessary code. Some 
memory piacks code with suitable 
code. 

The extra 64K of memory on the 
6128 is split into four banks, each 
1,6K in site. There are several 
configurations all the memory banks 
can take but the ones on which we 
concentrate on are those which 


switch the memory in and out of the 
addresses from Si4000 to &7FFR 
This block is in a good place to shift 
in and out and will form the basis for 
the subroutines which follow. 

Moving round the banks of RAM 
can be a nasty business, especially if 
you are trying to execute a program 



in one at the time. The computer 
would be running a program when 
the program vanishes and the 
computer becomes paranoid. The 
hardware also expects the screen 
display to occupy one of two places 
and will ref use to agree to any other 
locations, so take care when 
experimenting. You will not break 
anything but you can easily get into 
a stuatbon where rally a total power¬ 
down will save the day. It is 
interesting that the contents of the 
extra memory are not re-set 
whenever the ESC —* SHIFT — 
CONTROL keys are pressed, so any 
picture cm^ other data will hOt be 
affected by a minor crash - but do 
not take it for granted. 

So what will we do with all this 
extra memory? The following 
machine code will allow you to store 
and retrieve screen images to and 
from the banked RAM. Ybu will also 
be able to look ait a miniature verson 
of each stored screen so that you 




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can see what is happening. The 
machine code makes use of the RSX 
system, so you will not have to 
remember hex addresses. As an act 


Program 1 is the assembly 
Language listing. The material at the 
start is ail the machine code needed 
to set up the RSX table. Wotice how 


choose the bank of RAM in 
question. Each RSX must check 
that ore, and only one, parameter is 
supplied and that the parameter is in 


of unheard generosity, I will even each routine extracts some the desired range. If this Is not the 

give you the hexcode in a Basic parameters - the numbers which case the routines return to Basic 

program. follow the RSX - and uses them to without doing anything; you might 


Lis-drig 1 - Ths es&embliy language Isting. 

h Am Lftcreen 




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ret nz 

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next^lirw equ ItbcJA 




rambank equ libdSb 


Id a,CIXl 




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r*t nc 

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Id bc,EDM4ndl4ib 

It 

cp 0 

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Id hLfbuff#r 


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pu«ifi af 


dp nteetAl^le 


call ranbank 

1 Switch or the RAn bank. 

Jp vtarescrcen 


pop 4f 


ip 




Jp aiiniecrecn 


Id hl,«c0OO 

|S*t a different »Cp &&ri oo^itiQn 



cp 4 

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, nawst-able 

< 

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idp^aHn at* 

db -SIOREBCREE", 

"N"+t80 

Id hU^cr:328 


db 'TETCHSEREE'^ 


cp 5 


db "M1HIBCPEE-, " 


Jp EfEhrink 


db 0 





- 

Id hl,li«3c0 


. itDreStrwn 


cp & 




IP r^fthrink 


1 Store screen di^pl^y in entri meeorv. 





Id hl,l<e3B8 


Cp 1 

(Return to PABIC if the^B S sn 1 •^agtlv 



rel nz 

Idrie perimeter. 





tuhrink" 


Id a, 

(ktake sure the pafan^ter 3.1 m the 



cp S 

(ranqe J-4^ Irid af ngt 

Id 

1 Tht haii^ht of the Aini-imaqe. 

ret TIE 

It-etumi to B^8tC + 

id dP.MOOO 

tTbf addr*** otored iaapc. 

EP 0 


.lodpt 


ret t 


pudfi hi 

1 Store the otai't addressBE^ 



puih dv 


Add 3 

1 Adjust the nunber., and c^ll U^9 

Id c,44 

1 ?ha width of the mini-screen. 

I EdII rafltbank 

5 f ||-PW4I-B« 





4|ppp2 


Id hi( ,bcV0MJ 

|lhe start ot the screen ^Peinory, 

Id a^ide^ 

iCopy the data Iron th^ sloi-ed 

Id de>MOuO 

|lt>e BtaK’t □* the R?m ^ 

Id ihll.d 

¥ ima^a to the actual screen.. 

Jd bc.^IWO 

^Ihe lenpth of thif itrtfSru 



Id Lr 

jfbe "lAglt codf intti'iician LDIP^ 

Inc hi 




Inc deiiriE da 

(Update the flcrepn addreft^es. 

Id j,.o 




caI I I 

;Ful back the orjqmjl ROH bartt + 

dec c 


ret 

;and back to mp 

Id a,c 




Jr nit lodpl 

(End pi Hidtb 3nop 

. fetEhvEreeri 


pop hi 

iCunniniqly p-aad DE into Nl 



call r#xt_l in* 

land AQva it dawn a line 

fCtspy SErMP iP-a^e frnA 

BKtrd RW1 to tbo icrepn^ 

call iioMt_lirie 

;or two and 



m* de^hl 

1 thpn ftwap it back. 

Ep 1 

iChKh for Dfit parniwttr. 



r#t ni 


pop hi 




call next^line ihteve 

HL to the next lin#. 

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iDraw all the RAM baok-s., 1 tu 

4, 

Id 

1 lU th 1 ft addt'eftft 



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Id a,4itaU Aim 


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(Put oriqloaJ ABAcrv backi 



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like to add a noutnne to print an error 
message. 

Program 2 in the Basic program 
will create the RSXs and then nuke 
itself so save rt before running. 
When ail is working you will have 
three RSXs logged on to your 
system - 5TORESCREEN. 
FETCHSCREEN and MINISCREEN. 
They all need the number of a RAM 
bank to use a number from 1 to 4. 
miniscreen is special because it 
also can take the number from 1 to 
4. MINISCREEN is Special because it 
also can take the number O arfter it. 
Try it and see what it does. 

Program 3 is a short 
demonstration you can run after 
getting the RSXs to work. You must 
save a screen to disc or tape with 
which the program can load or. 
attemaitively, you could write a short 
routine using DRAW and PLCTT to 
put squiggles on the screen. 

So the extra memory is put to 
good use. If you want a good 
exercise in programming, try using 
the RSXs to supply you with some 
puil'down menus. Pull-down menus 
are menus which appear on the 
screen, covering anything which 
was there previously. Whenever a 
choice is made from the menu they 
dsappear and anything underneath is 
re*drawn, Vou can use 
STORESCREEN and FETCHSCREEN 
to prcrtfict the contents of the screen 
under the menus, 


Listing 3 - A short Basic derrionstration program, 


10 ' Example Basic Program 
20 'RSX's HUST already be defined! 

30 MODE 1 

40 LOAD "‘screen'*, ?:(C000: ' A screen display of your own design- 

41 REM Preceed name with ! if using a taoe (SDitJ system 
50 FOR a=l TO 5 

60 FOR b=l TO 4 
70 I ST0RE5EREEf\i, □ 

SO NEXT d 

90 IMINISCREEN,0 

100 try changing 0 to 1 acove 

110 NEXT a 


Listing 2 - The Basic H&xCade loader program. 


10 ' Machine Code hex Loaded 
20 ' SAVE proQrajn before running 

30 ' 

40 MEMORY 6(7FFf 
50 s=0 

60 FOR a=«tB000 TO StBOE? 

70 READ b»SE)^VAH"&"+D*l 
GO POKE a,b 
90 s=s+b 
100 NEXT a 

110 IF s<>*'68a9 THEN PRINT "Error in data. 


120 CALL SiSOOO 

130 PRINT “RSXs installed.” 

140 NEiit 

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A quick One to Start. A, James, 
who lives at the Beggar’s 
Roost has written to tell me 
that he has a routine to do a fast fill 
in any mode, any colour, and all tn 
machine code. It is a pattern fill 
rather than a solid fill and he has 
developed it under BBC Basic 
running under CP/M Plus. It strikes 
me as being the long way round, I 
reckon that thb is really one for Liz 
Ting so get your machine to data 
statements utility out of the closet, 
and send it in. 

Problems 
with MOll 

Laszio Cser, of Ashford, Middlesex 
bought a 6128 tn February, along 
with all kinds of programs, Among 
them was Mini Office 11, the 
Database Software integrated 
package Cser says: "You will think 
this is funny but would you tell me 


how to delete a file in Mini Office 
without re-formatting the entire 
disc? This problem has reached a 
critical stage, as now I have 39 
unwanted pieces of text taking up 
space on the discs," 

I do not think it is funny but it is 
one of the common problems 
beginners have. I can find no facility 
in the word processor module in MO 
!l to delete files from disc. What you 
need to do is, first, never save 
anything on to the original disc but 
always use a 'text' disc; this should 
hold all ybur text files and nothing 
else. 

Second, keep a second formatted 
disc handy, in case there is no room 
for the file you want to save on the 
'tsext' disc. To delete any file, you will 
have to do the job from Basic, using 
the ":ERA' command. The syntax is 
; ER A*filename.ext''. 

It is probably a good idea to have 
separate discs for database files, 
spreadsheets, and so on, always 
remembering to keep a blank 
formatted disc handy for those 
awkward moments. 


Phil and 
Protext/Rodos 

Pete Ravenscroft of Knowle, 
Bristol tells me he has been playing 
with Rodos and Pro text/spell/ 
merge + on his 664 with memory 
upgrade and 3,5in. SOOK second 
drive. This is as a result of Phil 
Craven's comparative review of 
Rodos arxJ Ram/Romdos in the June 
issue. Craven had had problems 
saving to big discs under Rodos, 
which Ravenscroft says he does not 
have. Funnily enough, neither do I. It 
is nothing to do with the version of 
Protext on ROM, or Rodos a then 

What interests me most about 
.Ravenscroft’s letter is a little 
throwaway line "Rodos is a big 
improvement over Amsdos and 
opens tfie world of different disc 
drives. I shall soon be attempting to 
attach a lOMB hard disc." Did you 
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hear If he manages to get a hard disc 
up and running, as E am sure hordes 
of other CPC users will be. There are 
a few of us who have been pestering 
various companies to produce a CPC 
hand drive, so I am sure there is 
plenty of interest. 


HELP! 

I received a letter from Jm 
Sedgwick in which he apologises for 
not enclosing some interesting 
material with his earlier letter, all to 
do with a printer dump problem. My 
problem is that we do not seem to 
have the first Letter Will he send it 
again? 

Special 

Impediments 

Nicholas De La Haye, aged M, from 
Guernsey writes to say he has a 
problem with his speech synthesiser 
which will talk to him only in a 
‘Robot* voice. He has tried u^ng 
:FEED but cannot get a human-iike 
sound and Judging by his letter, both 
he and his 6128 are fed up with it. 

He asks if there is any way to 
make the voice tone more human in 
quality. In my part of the country - 
Washington, in the north-east - we 
all sound like SSIs, Seriously though, 
for the CPC yoo are Stuck with 
Dalek'like voice sounds. I prefer the 
infinite variety of words you can 
produce with phoneme synthesis 
modules- 

ROMing all over 
the world 

Ben Clewett sent a word- 
processed but not speli-checked 
missive from Oxford seeking advice 
about ROM blowers. More 
specifically, he asks what programs 
you can transfer to ROM without 
breaking copyright laws. Is it just 
those you have written yourself, or 
can you transfer any title to which 
you have iegal access? 

1 reckon that there are as many 


answers to this question as there 
are people of whom to ask it. My 
stance is that if you have a program 
you use a good deai and want it On 
ROM. 1 can see no harm in doing the 
job but with certain provisos. You 
must keep the original disc and not 
dispose of it in any way. either by 
sale or a swap. In other words, 
possession of the original, unaltered 
packages entitles you to use that 
package, so long as you required it 
iegal iy. 

Since I will not, on principle!, buy 
any software which cannot be 
backed-up, I take the view that 1 am 
entitled to keep a working copy of a 
program, as well as the original. If I 
decide to keep that working copy on 
ROM, rather than on a 3in disc or 
tape, 1 cannot see it makes any 
difference. 

If I sell the original package and 
keep the ROM for my use. I am in 
breach of copyright, since 1 no longer 
hold the licence to use the softwane. 
So, if the original is sold, the ROM 
must either be erased or go as part 
of the package. 

Graduate Software, whose CP/M 
Plus ROMs I reviewed in CPC 
Computing before it and ACU were 
merged, had the same dilemma. It 
approached Digital Research and 
Amstrad with its idea and according 
to its managing director, got little in 
the way of reply. It has gone ahead 
and done the deed, successfully toov 
so the precedent is there, i hope that 


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Lightpen 

answers 

Katy Pow^l of Wisbech. Cambs 
asks what lightpien she needs to 
print pictures with her 464 and DMP 
2160. The short answer is none but 
I sense that there is more to the 
question. 

Before I go any further with it I 
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device. They tend to be less than 100 
percent accurate and make your 
wrist ache after a short time using 
them against an upright screen, I 
much prefer a mouse - the AMX 
mouse, now being sold by Database, 
or the Kempston mouse, which is 
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£6.90 

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